Dasha Pogodina
Cherry Blossom
2024

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This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK In "Cherry Blossom," part of the "Archive of happiness. Unlived Chronicles," I paint a homage to the untasted springs of my family's past. The cherry blossom, with its fleeting bloom, becomes a symbol of the ephemeral joys that were never experienced due to the harsh realities of their time. This piece is a restoration of my heritage's lost moments to the canvas, giving them a permanence denied in history. It is a silent ode to the beauty and resilience of the human spirit, an assertion that despite the past's shadows, there can be a present filled with grace and a future that blooms anew. This work is not just a creation of art; it is a crafted legacy of hope and a portrayal of life's enduring dance with beauty. Series Archive of happiness. Unlived Chronicles This is a way for me to work through the trauma of generations who were deprived of the opportunity to have happy years of childhood youth and maturity throughout the 20th century. My family's photos and stories are full of sadness and pain, unfulfilled dreams and broken destinies. The Soviet government was engaged in the dispossession, and displacement of people, families were forced to abandon their homes. I want to create a false archive in which generations of my family were happy. My task as an artist is to rewrite the script, to give voice and image to what my ancestors dreamed of but could not get. I paint the carefree times that didn't exist, in which they were happy, living in their beautiful rich houses, studying, meeting their love, gathering as a big family for holidays, and whispering each other secrets about suitors. For me it is a way to come to terms with the trauma of generations condemned to survival instead of life, to create a personal image of a future of joy and prosperity, and to show society and others with similar backgrounds that liberation lies not in suffering but in rethinking and strength.

Creator:

Dasha Pogodina (1992, Ukrainian)

Creation Year:

2024

Dimensions:

Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 35.44 in (90 cm)Depth: 0.99 in (2.5 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Impressionist

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Zofingen, CH

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2203214327392

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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.