SR x MDC: Sasha Katz

The interview was conducted as part of the SR exhibition “Motion Design, NFTs, and Art.”

The exhibition features Gavin Shapiro, aeforia, beyondbola, Blake Kathryn, Sasha Katz, Adam Priester, Steven Baltay, James Owen, smeccea, Esteban Diacono, Alessio De Vecchi, and Render Fruit (click links to view interviews)

Co-organized by SuperRare and Motion Designers Community.

Sasha Katz (aka wonderkatzi) is a 3d artist, based in Athens. In her most recent works Sasha is exploring female sexuality and the perfection of imperfection of female body. She portrays a delicate tenderness alongside a physical fragility that become tools to express her endless love for women. Her creations have been presented worldwide in the occasion of numerous group exhibitions. Selected collaborations: Burberry, Tumblr, Converse, Laura Strambi, Vogue Italia.

In my most recent works I’m exploring female sexuality and the perfection of imperfection of the female body. I’m inspired by the unconventional beauty. When I was a kid I created a series of queer erotical comics at school, my teacher took them from me and invited my mother for a talk about my inappropriate creativity. Since then I’ve been doing exactly the same but in 3D and no one can stop me. Currently I’m working on the series of softcore pieces, where I’m eroticizing my heroes in my eyes, the eyes of a woman. The art process really turns me on.

I love the balance between realism and grotesque. I avoid using of subsurface scattering, no transparent noses and ears. I use Cinema 4D, Marvelous designer and Daz 3D.

Tumblr community really supported me, I posted new work and was growing as an artist. Currently I’m a bit confused, Instagram is deleting my works from other accounts for nudity, despite the fact that I’m making a ‘censored’ version for IG with nipples covered. I’m really unhappy that violence is okay and the female body is not okay. So I started a twitter account where there is no censorship and no virtual bras.

I think that design is solving problems and art is creating problems. I identify motion design as a form. It can be art and can be non-art.

Concerning the difference between good and mediocre, original and copycat – I love my ‘kitsch or camp’ rule: if there is a perceived self-reflection – I call it art. If there is no self-reflection, it’s kitsch – the copy with the broken connection with the original, empty by itself. 

Art needs context. I think that crypto art world is a perfect replacement for moth-eaten art galleries with extremely high entry threshold and lack of space. Let’s mix high-brow with low-brow and be happy.