Lena Starkova
Argentina
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
My practice operates within architecture as a mode of spatial thinking. I use digital image-making to articulate environments that function as propositions — spaces shaped by light, proportion and perceptual structure.
I work within architectural and minimalist traditions, approaching space as an experiential system. Digital tools extend this approach, allowing spatial ideas to be tested, reconfigured and perceived beyond physical realization.
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
My practice moves along a trajectory of reimagining space through atmosphere and perception. I am drawn to processes in which environments remain open, allowing meaning to unfold through stillness, suspension and reflection.
This movement is guided by attention to the intangible — emotion, void, atmosphere and expectation. Each work develops as a gradual articulation of these qualities, inviting the viewer into a sustained state of engagement.
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
The space in which my practice unfolds is an imagined architectural environment shaped by light, atmosphere and perception. Here, form carries feeling and light operates as structure, allowing environments to exist as experiential propositions.
Within this space, images function as thresholds — points of entry that invite personal engagement. Meaning emerges through presence and attentiveness, as each viewer encounters the work through their own rhythm and sensibility. This space holds a quiet tension between clarity and ambiguity, allowing atmosphere to become the primary carrier of experience.
Artist Statement
My art is an exploration of space — as metaphor, as inner state, and as language.
I approach the visual through architecture: through form, light, scale, and stillness. My experience in interior design taught me to work with the invisible — with atmosphere, emptiness, and anticipation. As I moved into the digital realm, I carried this perception into new dimensions, where physical laws no longer constrain the imagination.
Generative technologies became a way for me to think in images. They allow me to expand the boundaries of perception and build visual narratives where utility gives way to poetics. I’m drawn to the architectural canon, to minimalism, to light as meaning and form as emotion. I create imagined spaces that do not ask for explanation — only presence.
My works are an attempt to speak without words. They are states suspended between light and shadow, between reality and dream. I don’t create visual objects, but memory-images, meditative images — spaces where the viewer may come to hear their own silence.
