There is a bell in left hand
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Year | 2020 |
Material | Oil on canvas |
Size | 120,5 × 120,5 cm |
The exhibition of works by Tanya Akhmetgalieva "Temporary House" is the first large solo exhibition in Kemerovo. This is a creative revision of her works over the past few years. Textile works, paintings, graphics, and videos are scattered across three floors in different halls-rooms-offices. These works are united by themes that constantly appear in the artist's works - duality, impermanence, fragility. Temporary means changing. Even the space in her works is fluid, and what seems cozy and unchanging - a house, a diary entry, childhood memories - in an instant becomes an illusion, a flash, a flicker in a series of events and places, times and realities.
In an attempt to capture and record these realities, in a constant search for form and endless refinement of contours and coloring options, “Doubles” (2018, 2021) are born and mutate beyond recognition, receiving new incarnations, the simplest and most ordinary objects - they grow thorns, hide fangs, flourish with eyes.
Text: Katarina Lopatkina