Contemporary artist

BUTTERFLY
Work Details:
Butterfly, 2024
160 x 140 cm
oil painting on canvas
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Punteggiato di Luce, Giaceva lì, Scintillante
Mimmo Scognamiglio gallery, Milan, Italy
Curated by Milena Zanetti
Photo by Sarah Indriolo
May 23 – July 26, 2024
Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio is pleased to present Punteggiato di luce, giaceva lì, scintillante, a group exhibition that sees the three young artists Anna Bochkova, Evgeniya Pankratova and Chiara Ressetta interacting for the first time in the same exhibition space with their most recent works.
The title of the exhibition is intended to evoke the image of a mirror or a reflecting surface of water, which in the history of images have always had supernatural powers. Popular beliefs attribute to the mirror the power to materialise the past and the future, distant events, hidden objects or beings; it would, in short, be a magic eye capable of seeing what is invisible to the human eye. The mirror is here the pretext to discuss the different stratifications of objects and how they add further narrative layers by revealing the hidden truths of the contexts in which they are inserted. Just like the mirror, there are various objects that contain a multitude of symbolic meanings and, voluntarily or involuntarily, the artists in the exhibition use the iconography of the object to open a dialogue between personal experience and collective symbols.
Within the works of the three young artists, it is therefore always the object that holds the substantial knowledge of what is hidden and the otherwise unseen effects.
Affective mirrors that communicate our states of mind in such a way that the image leads one towards the other.