PIGMENT gray on the second floor

2021
'PIGMENT gray on the second floor' (solo exhibition)
9b Gallery. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
'Blazar young art fair' (art-fair)
Fābula gallery. Moscow, Russia
OSB, beeswax, plaster, gypsum, rigging, carpeting, canvas, acrylic
Who is your mother? Who is your father?: 90x160x46 cm, Three dogs, one man: 55x66 cm, Dog pack (diptych): 140x100 cm (x2)
You’re not going anywhere.
Not from yourself, not from your family, not from society. You are part of it, part of what can be called in one word: 'Motherland'. This feeling shines powerfully through the darkness of individualistic alienation. A sense of attachment, of love, of obsessive attempts to break away from the unity imposed on you with family, with society, with the environment.

You’re not going anywhere.
To be a subject today means to choose your body, your gender, your parents, your religion, your relatives, your place of existence and residence. To be a subject today means one thing: to decide to renounce subjectivity.

You’re not going anywhere.
From an early age you are connected to your parents, your environment, your surroundings. When the realization of your personality and your own subjectivity happens, you fall apart, and then you have to put it back together again like a puzzle, trying to piece together the pieces that have fallen apart. And then you are faced with the task of polishing away all the excess, adding the necessary.

You’re not going anywhere.
An incomprehensible, mystical force power powerfully and demandingly grabs you and brings you home to your «homeland» in the realm of the real and the native. You put aside on the top shelf of your consciousness the need for self-determination. And there is a sense of joy, of unity, of some mysterious connection with what is called «home,» something «authentic,» «proper,» «one’s own.

Special thanks to:
9b gallery (Elena Talyanskaya & Georgiy Smirnov)
Anastasia Biryukova