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Dasha Pogodina
Whispers of Verdance
2023

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK "Whispers of Verdance" is a contemplative portrait that captures the essence of growth and introspection. The subject's gaze is direct and knowing, framed by a halo of delicate greenery that symbolizes the flourishing of the mind and spirit. The muted palette of pinks and greens suggests a softness and vulnerability, while the abstract elements in the background imply a complex inner world. This piece invites viewers to reflect on the natural beauty of self-discovery and the quiet strength found in one's personal sanctuary. Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals. Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home. Here is what Daria herself says about her works I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Creator:

Dasha Pogodina (1992, Ukrainian)

Creation Year:

2023

Dimensions:

Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Impressionist

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Zofingen, CH

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2203213482032

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Dasha Pogodina Ukrainian artist, based in Switzerland. Paintings are in private collections in the USA, South Korea, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, and Switzerland. Exhibitions 2022 Solo Exhibition Stärke und Verletzlichkeit / Escape Vide - Thun, Switzerland 2022 Group exhibitions In Ukraine / ZRC - Ljubljana, Slovenia 2018 Group exhibitions Room of my Minds, Ukraine 2017 Group exhibitions Garden as an Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Group exhibitions Gift of Volhvs Severodonetsk, Ukraine 2013 Group exhibitions Fragment of Life, Luhansk, Ukraine 2012 Collaborate Project Light of Hearts, Luhansk Ukraine Dasha Pogodina about her art New sexuality and personal integrity - are the basic areas of search in my artistic practice. In my practice, I problematize the ideal of the metamodern world with its total moderation and the desire to return to high ideals and values. As an artist, I concentrate on the nature of the corporeal, I perceive the body as a membrane reflecting me into this world and communicating the world to me. In search of answers, I enter into dialogue with the body-sensory lexicon of Kiki Smith and Paula Modersohn Becker and also find support in the sublime physicality of the early Gothic of the 13th century from Giotto, unencumbered by the tension of formal anatomy. My works are filled with color, and ethnic decoration and are illustrative at the same time. This turns my paintings into light, at first glance, stories, which, however, do not call the viewer to cold contemplation, but, on the contrary, open up the opportunity to safely return to their secret “I”. I use the space of naive archetypal images, creating a safe haven from aggressive modernity, with the opportunity to dive into the psychological depths of my own worldview. I build into my paintings the mechanics of oscillation of naivety and mockery, trust and cynicism, chastity and debauchery, strength and kindness, as a manifesto of courage to be vulnerable and herbivorous in a world where food chains still exist.