Ekaterina Perfilieva is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, installation, and archival material. Currently based in Ubud, Indonesia, her work explores themes of emotional emptiness, social alienation, and the erosion of intimacy in modern life. Often drawing from psychoanalysis, she examines the quiet collapse of connection in both personal and cultural spaces.
In her latest series In the Daylight, Perfilieva turns her lens on the emotional void beneath sexual imagery. Fragmented bodies, black stockings, and sterile white fluids appear stripped of sensuality — symbols of desire rendered cold and clinical. The result is a visual language of detachment, where fantasy replaces tenderness and intimacy fades under harsh fluorescent light.
In an age of emotional capitalism — where dating apps, webcam platforms, and sex products offer controlled connection — Perfilieva captures the paradox of modern desire: the more we chase pleasure, the further we drift from love.
Photography: Ekaterina Perfilieva
@kate_perfilieva – perfilieva.com
