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Secci Gallery is pleased to present for Art Brussels 2023 a Solo Show featuring works by Daria Dmytrenko (1993, Dnipropetrovsk, Ucraina).

When looking at Daria Dmytrenko’s works we passionately observe the creatures within the canvases, and we want them to do the same with us. We feel strong emotions, an attractive revulsion, a reassuring terror. We take a break from scrolling other people’s images, as an overwhelming and insatiable voyeurism. Subjects do not reveal themselves in their entirety on either the first or second or tenth glance. For each detail we catch, we lose another one. The invitation is to take a pause before these hazy clusters of color, and to let our subconscious work.

It is precisely from Dmytrenko’s subconscious that every brushstroke originates, to give both shape and context to a personal mythology. Looking for connections with ancient stories and fables is a futile attempt. The artist generates a parallel timeline, drawing from memories shared by diverse peoples and generations, and from herself. Emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares: all these personal memories are merged with folk tales, distorting time and rooting in the past, mutating through the present.

The work’s atmosphere reflects a particular, delicate, poetic mood, characterized by the soft light of dawn that, appearing on the horizon, removes the fears of the darkness of the night. The creative process is sacred, almost mystical: a sort of meditation, a subconscious flow within each painting seeks to find a balance and to bring silence. While painting, an infallible methodology could be discovered, and the goal is to derive memories. Finding by creating.

 

Secci Gallery is pleased to present for Art Brussels 2023 a Solo Show featuring works by Daria Dmytrenko (1993, Dnipropetrovsk, Ucraina).

When looking at Daria Dmytrenko’s works we passionately observe the creatures within the canvases, and we want them to do the same with us. We feel strong emotions, an attractive revulsion, a reassuring terror. We take a break from scrolling other people’s images, as an overwhelming and insatiable voyeurism. Subjects do not reveal themselves in their entirety on either the first or second or tenth glance. For each detail we catch, we lose another one. The invitation is to take a pause before these hazy clusters of color, and to let our subconscious work.

It is precisely from Dmytrenko’s subconscious that every brushstroke originates, to give both shape and context to a personal mythology. Looking for connections with ancient stories and fables is a futile attempt. The artist generates a parallel timeline, drawing from memories shared by diverse peoples and generations, and from herself. Emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares: all these personal memories are merged with folk tales, distorting time and rooting in the past, mutating through the present.

The work’s atmosphere reflects a particular, delicate, poetic mood, characterized by the soft light of dawn that, appearing on the horizon, removes the fears of the darkness of the night. The creative process is sacred, almost mystical: a sort of meditation, a subconscious flow within each painting seeks to find a balance and to bring silence. While painting, an infallible methodology could be discovered, and the goal is to derive memories. Finding by creating.

 

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