Photo : Justine LatourVisual artist Natalja Scerbina has lived and worked in Montreal since arriving from Latvia in 1997. With a bachelor's degree in art history and visual arts from Concordia University, she has participated in various solo and group exhibitions since 2006, including Futur composé, Galerie du Viaduc, 2008; Rien, Galerie Projet, 2011; Inside out, Galerie Tzara, 2011; Horizon perdu, Galerie du Viaduc, 2020; as well as the benefit exhibitions Parle-moi d'amour, Les Impatients, and CIRCA 2023). Her works are part of public, museum (MNAQ), and private collections.
Natalja Scerbina's artistic practice unfolds like a journey through the subtle connections between humans and living things. At the border between abstraction and figuration, she shapes worlds that are both captivating and disturbing, where fragility, transience, and the invisible come to the surface. The forms she brings to life seem sculpted by light, swept by the wind, carried by the invisible forces of nature—fleeting glimpses of a world in perpetual motion—reflecting a sensitive exploration of how living things manifest, transform, and disappear.
Her works lie at the intersection of the tangible and the imaginary, weaving spaces for contemplation imbued with care, where the boundaries between reality and poetry blur. They invite us to revisit our relationship with beauty, the unknown, and the invisible forces that permeate nature. Through this process, the artist explores traces, memory, and movement as gestures of attentiveness toward living beings.
In 2021, her works were featured in the exhibition Hors cadre: œuvres des artistes parmi nous at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Her exhibition De nos gestes fragiles (2023) marked the beginning of her collaboration with Galerie Simon Blais.
