Vera Fainshtein

Vera Fainshtein is a contemporary Californian artist who incorporates digital video, sound and theatrical stage-like sets to produce environments that purposely blur the boundary between art and life. Her work is a good example of “lifelike” art, i.e. art that is connected to life and is at the service of life.

Her installations are preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space of the everyday existence. Her materials are common objects: old wallpaper, a rotary phone, taste of red wine, an arm holding an umbrella, sounds of rain... Encouraging the viewers to use their senses, the artist’s ambition is to recreate a feeling of lived, felt space, a sensuous space, subjectively and bodily perceived.

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