FRANCE – PARIS
Two lighthouses shine in the clear night at the bend of a road that runs deep into the forest: painted in acrylic ink on wood, this painting by Taisiia Cherkasova, exhibited among other fantasised memories at Galerie Dominique Fiat, caught our eye. What are these lighthouses telling us, marking the vanishing point of the painting entitled Drive me crazy? Escape from one’s homeland? Hope for renewal? The quest for refuge?
Born in 1991 in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, Taisiia Cherkasova now lives in Aubervilliers, in Poush, where she shares a studio with five other artists. Having experimented with a variety of techniques, from oil paint and wax to modelling clay and collage, she has now turned her attention to airbrushed acrylic inks. It’s a technique that captures the “elusive aspect” of “never-fixed” memory, which, like dreams, “is a living phenomenon, taking on different forms and constantly transforming itself”… So here we are, transported into this misty nightcap on the road of dreams, to journey, on the verge of madness, through our own memories and phantasmagoria in the clear night of our daydreams.
STÉPHANIE DULOUT
TAISIIA CHERKASOVA – BORN TO BE WILD
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Until July 15