may
2021
june
2021



The exposition presents everyday objects that were massively used in the recent past: pots, washboards, aluminum basins. Today these things are devoided of their functionality and pushed to the sidelines of everyday life. The artist applied images taken from postcards and thematic albums of the early twentieth century on them.
A series of metal plates "Dancing in the Kitchen" realizes the connection of female sexuality and manifesting physicality with routine and female household practices. Old washboards with traces of usage become a board of honor for successful women who have remained in history as muses or as creative personalities.
The kitchen, as a unifying motive of all these series, has a sacred meaning - the kitchen as a place for the realization of the life process, in which a woman, through overcoming her ego, turns into a butterfly or lives like a chrysalis.
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