EXHIBITIONS

Hunting for Soluble Fish 2022

Zverev Center for Contemporary Art

Exhibition artists:

On September 19 at 19:00, the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art (29, Bldg. 4, Novoryazanskaya St.) will open the exhibition «Hunting for Soluble Fish
2022». The project has been bringing together surrealist works by artists for the third year in a row. The exhibition will feature paintings, graphics,
collages, and objects by artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Bonn, Brussels, Paris, and Daugavpils. The exhibition
will last until October 1 and will be open to visitors daily from 12:00 to 20:00.

In 1924, André Breton wrote the first «Surrealist Manifesto», and a collection of poetry, «Soluble Fish», was attached to it. The hunt itself is as absurd as Breton's quoted work, but for some reason, artists do not tire of chasing the invisible. The surreal images in this year's works have become even more phantasmagoric, revealing a special emotionality.
«Birds lose their form after they lose their colors»,
– André Breton«Soluble Fish».

Project curators:

Zhenya Sharvina, Zhenya Sterlyagova

The work is made in a mixed technique using bitumen, acrylic and texture paste, which creates a strong relief and tactile saturation. These materials introduce a world of contrasts between the utilitarian nature of the object and its symbolic transformation.

«Chair» is a powerful symbol. Its shape speaks of the instability and fragility of everyday life. Bitumen adds a sense of time, fluidity and irreversibility, as if the chair gradually dissolves, disappearing into its own shadow.
An attempt to capture a state: the chair as a metaphor for waiting, a pause or even an internal dialogue frozen in the material.

Bitumen, acrylic, texture paste
Canvas on a stretcher, 90 х 70 cm
2022

Hunting for Soluble Fish 2023

Zverev Center for Contemporary Art

On September 13, 2023, the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art opened the IV season of «Hunting for Soluble Fish». The name of the project goes back to the poetry collection «Le Poisson Soluble», an appendix to Andre Breton’s «Surrealist Manifesto», created almost 100 years ago. The surrealism of our time has become the reality of media news and information flows. The harsh system of prohibitions and restrictions imposed by the circumstances of time and place, like set traps, forces the artist to mimic and wriggle out, but this does not mean that she has succeeded.
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The exhibition will last until September 22, and will be available for visiting daily from 12:00 to 20:00. The exposition will feature paintings, graphics, collages, and objects.

Project curators:

Zhenya Sharvina, Zhenya Sterlyagova

The work is made using bitumen, acrylic, gold leaf, textured paste and fabric.
These materials create an expressive multi-layeredness, enhancing the feeling of resistance, struggle and transformation. Bitumen, with its fluid, difficult to control nature, becomes a symbol of complex energy striving to go beyond the limits of form.
The composition conveys the moment of liberation, not as an easy process, but as an intense action full of internal contradictions. The central figure seems to be stuck in the material, which simultaneously limits her and serves as a means of expression. The yellow background in contrast to the dark mass of bitumen symbolizes hope and the desire for light, but the path to it requires overcoming.
«Releasing Yourself» is a process of liberation from internal and external limitations. This is not a self-portrait, but an allegory of the human struggle for self-realization. The work reveals the process of meaning creation, where the material - bitumen and textile - becomes part of the narrative, embodying the idea of ​​resistance and going beyond. The question arises: what does it mean to be free?
«Releasing Yourself» is not only about going out, but also about an internal transformation, where release turns into a painful but necessary form of growth.

Releasing Yourself

Bitumen, acrylic, texture paste, fabric, gold leaf
Canvas on a stretcher, 120 х 90 cm
2022

My Fantastic Child

CreArte JLN gallery / Valencia (Spain)


According to Berne E.'s theory, each of us contains a child, a parent, and an adult.

«For me, the project «Verisimilitude of a dreams» became a way to draw the viewer's attention to the «deafeningly quiet» existence of the phenomenon of the inner child. Through art, as part of a dialogue with ArtCollab participants, we tried to convey the feeling of the ability of our inner children to «put to sleep» our consciousness, their ability to create chaos or the effect of "daydreams".
As part of the exhibition, we presented three works of the project «Verisimilitude of a dreams» - amnesia, love trap, fantasy. We held a performance»,
– Vasilisa T.

Project curators:

Vasilisa Talvirskaia, Katia Shabanova

From December 6 to 20, 2024, the TDA’42 Studios in Valencia will host the exhibition «Boundaries. Silence in movement», the culmination of a performative art session where the interaction of expression and calligraphy revealed the delicate boundaries between deliberate gestures and unconscious impulses.
At the heart of this session lies a 10-meter roll of paper, transformed into an arena for two artistic approaches. Vigorous strokes of blue paint and graphite captured emotional surges, while calligraphic lines, initially intended to be smooth and well-thought, spontaneously broke free from their usual rhythm under the influence of the expressive context. Music accompanying the process amplified the flow of movements, turning the act of working with lines and gestures into an exploration of unconscious impulses.
After the session, the paper was reworked into a series of art objects of various formats. Each piece retains traces of the creative process, documenting the transition from spontaneity to intention.
The exhibition invites viewers to contemplate silence as an internal impulse that finds expression through motion and line, leaving behind traces of interaction between the conscious and the unconscious.

TDA’42 Studios Valencia

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