{"id":3866,"date":"2019-05-25T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/?post_type=artists&p=3866"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:59:35","slug":"sarah-svetlana","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/artists\/sarah-svetlana\/","title":{"rendered":"sarah svetlana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview by Jimon<\/p>\n

1-Where did you grow up and where do you currently reside and work?\u00a0 <\/strong>My family fled the Soviet Union when I was four years old. \u00a0We moved to the most homogenous suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, at seventeen, my family moved to Los Angeles, where I still live and work.<\/p>\n

2-How would you describe Sarah Svetlana?\u00a0<\/strong> I am a Jewish refugee from Soviet Belarus. I am an eternally conflicted child, stuck between two cultures and two languages. I am the three year old refugee you now see in detainment cages on TV. Because I can pass for anyone of you, I am also the girl next door. I guess you can call me the American dream.<\/p>\n

3-How long have you been making art and what lead you to start?\u00a0 <\/strong>In kindergarten we draw pictures long before we read and write\u2014I suspect this made an impression on me. Drawing was a way to manage and reframe a world that was scary and big and incredibly unstable. Art has always felt like a better form of expression.<\/p>\n

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div> $\"\"$ <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>