I work on the porousness of the mediums of photography, performance and installation. I use light, space and time to question our existence and explore visual, spatial and temporal perception.
Thanks to a camera obscura device, which I create from San Pellegrino cans, I photograph over a long exposure time (from 1 to 9 months) in order to transcribe the observation of the places I invest. I explore duration, the awareness of elapsed time and question our perception of time. As each observation is a unique experience, the prints and installations find their singular form and place in the exhibition space. The long temporality of production as well as a rudimentary tool to accompany it (San Pellegrino cans) create almost a reverse movement, compared to the increased speed of life and a progressive presence of automatisation in our daily life. Invitation to return to the basics and question the essential — what is to 'live'? What makes us beings of human consciousness? Take pause to contemplate the world, does it become a political act?
I explore the wave nature of light, its perception, and how it becomes colour. The 'painted' installations in space appeal to spatial perception and question the illusion of reality. As a synesthete, I articulate the phenomenon of synesthesia and the notion of intermedia, created by artist Dick Higgins in 1965, to explore multidimensional perception.
Furthermore, I am interested in language, semantic and reduced listening. My performances and happenings, exploring auditory and kinetic perception, offer an alternative reading of our life experience within the temporality of the present moment.
Ekaterina Bunits (1990, Podolsk) lives and works in Toulouse, France. Graduated from the Moscow State University in Geology, she turns to Osteopathy to study the human body. She obtains a National Diploma in Art (DNSEP) in France at the Institut Superieur des Arts et du Design de Toulouse in 2022 where she works in the photography studio with Christine Sibran. In 2023 she is invited to present her first solo exhibition at the Espace Muséographique of the Catholic Institut of Toulouse. In 2021-2024, Ekaterina works on the perception of gardens within the Genre 2030 research group. In 2024, Ekaterina Bunits joins Trois A, a collective workspace and artistic programming venue in Toulouse and receives a fund from DRAC Occitanie (AIA 2024).
2025 Solo show, Espace Samba Resille, Toulouse
2023 Solo show, Espace muséographique Georges Baccrabère ICT, Toulouse
2022 Echo Chance Disgrace, Workshop Genre2030, centre d’art la Chapelle St.Jacque, St Gaudens, France
2021 Group show ‘Natures aux jardins’, couloirNo1 IsdaT, Toulouse, France
2021 Group show ‘Neons’, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, France
2019 Group show ‘mimesis’, Musees des Augustin et centre d’art Nomade, France
2025 roadside picknick #4 - socheata aing, 'un frisson dans la nuit', Radio CanalSud, Toulouse
2025 roadside picknick #3 - pédro deffarges, 'un frisson dans la nuit', Radio CanalSud, Toulouse
2024 Open Studio #2 - how honest can i be?, Trois A, Toulouse
2024 Open Studio #1 - Synesthesie, Trois A, Toulouse
2024 roadside picknick #2 - jeanson péchin, 'un frisson dans la nuit', Radio CanalSud, Toulouse
2024 roadside picknick #1 - ouverture - avec socheata aing, 'un frisson dans la nuit', Radio CanalSud, Toulouse
2019 Lecture, 'Les Commencements' le Club des lectures, La Cave Poésie, Toulouse
2018 Lecture, Radio *DUUU, 'bout de la nuit', as part of a contemporary art festival 'le Printemps de Septembre', 2018, Toulouse
2023 Ekaterina Bunits, Cahier d’Art de l’ICT, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2022 Edition Genre2030 , art research group review, Toulouse, France
2021 Edition ‘Natures aux jardins’, series of posters, Toulouse, France
2022 isdaT • institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse - DNSEP Art ( MA )
2014 ESO • European School of Osteopathy in Kent, - 3 years of International program
2013 MSU • Lomonosov Moscow State University - Master of Science in Geology ( MA Hons )