Objects — Katja Butorina

Objects

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Tactile map 2022
Tactile Map is a sensory exploration project designed to support tactile awareness and recovery for hands-on professionals. Inspired by observing manual therapy practice, the project addresses sensory fatigue caused by repetitive tactile work.
It consists of a curated set of cards made from contrasting materials — soft, rigid, smooth, fibrous, metallic, and porous. Each texture stimulates different mechanoreceptors, helping to re-engage tactile perception and restore sensory sensitivity through intentional touch.

Under the radar2020
A small-format publication by NORK Magazine, exploring the contemporary art scene of St. Petersburg through a curated editorial lens. The publication presents a series of diverse cultural spaces and artistic practices — from underground galleries and post-apocalyptic installations to feminist cultural initiatives and experimental sound research.
I contributed to the project as a graphic designer, responsible for the visual language of the brochure and postcards.

The final set includes:
1. A5 recycled cardboard box
2. A5 booklet with editorial content and featured locations
3. 8 postcards showcasing artworks by different artists

NORK Magazine, Tromsø

Passions2014

The essence of the problems facing modern civilization should be sought not in external factors but in internal ones — specifically in humans, their worldview, and the set of values that predetermine their actions and ways of self-realization. Today's person exists in a state of constant, unceasing consumption and appropriation—consumer society, through information technologies, strives to manipulate human desires and artificially inflate them. Time accelerates, and we replace the values of authentic existence with artificial hyperactivity, which disrupts the ecology of the soul and mental health. Humanity can only step back from the brink of the abyss if it reconsiders its worldview beliefs, if it can bring its understanding of freedom, democracy, responsibility, and the meaning of existence into alignment with the new demands of time.

Man-Tree
Passions and Desires
Garden

This three-part project aims to visually demonstrate the danger of the destruction of human nature. I use various materials—wood, metal, plastic—which become metaphors for different states of the human soul. On these quite material surfaces, traces, marks, and stigmata appear as a consequence of boundless desires and irresponsible actions.

Philosophical texts by the 16th-century mystic Jacob Böhme and images from the famous paintings of Hieronymus Bosch help convey the scale of ontological problems—after all, philosophers, artists, and mystics of all preceding epochs raised questions about the general principles of existence of nature, society, and humans.

Hokku2013

Set of stereo vario postcards with Japanese hokku.