Olya Zarapina
video artist

QCHH+VVG (Πάφος) 2025

Rally Space

08/03/2025

Olya Zarapina was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and currently lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Québec, Canada. She holds a Bachelors in Visual Communications Design from the University of Alberta and a Masters in Visual and Media Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal. Her site-specific photo-filmic installations are a reflection on the places where they are made; their cultural, political and economic states; and the attitudes and lifestyles of their inhabitants and have been carried out throughout North America and Europe..

Olya’s artistic approach is best described as expanded photography and is influenced by studies of urbanism, architecture, creative geography, and experimental cinema. Through this interdisciplinarity her photo-filmic installations examine the relationships between people and their living environments and what influences our concept of home, of belonging to one place over another.