I am not purple
| Artists | |
|---|---|
| Year | 2024 |
| Material | Watercolor on paper |
| Size | 75 × 75 cm |
<…> The paintings of the Electrosleep series are distinguished by their extreme brightness of color. These are the colors of electric sleep, in this case justifying their name "electric". They have no relation to reality, they are excessively bright and artificial. According to the artist, when you work with such colors all day long, the real world seems black and white for a while.
At first glance, Electrosleep may seem like a "gamified" version of painting, leveling out its texture and speaking the language of digital-era comics. However, instead of the idea of interactivity, the paintings carry a deliberate coldness and alienation. It is unclear where the worlds depicted on the canvas are and what is left beyond them, where the author/viewer is and who he/she is. Their imaginary cheerfulness cannot deceive anyone. There is a feeling of disorientation, misunderstanding, loss, characteristic of the transformation experienced during the transition from the real world to many virtual ones.
The artist calls her project anesthesia, hypnosis, failure, deception, trauma, fear, collapse, mutation, absence, cutting out... On the eve of the birth of "Electrosnea", a friend called her and told her about her dream, in which Tanya says: "I am not a candle, I am not a hydrangea, I am not like a beetle...". This is how the titles of her paintings "I am not a hydrangea", "I am not a mirror", "I am not a machine" appeared... and watercolors "I am not black", "I am not purple", "I am not a cobblestone", "I am not a book" appeared...
Text: Olesya Turkina
