Inside: The Raw Layers

A small interlude within the “Anti…”exhibition presents a series of five paintings of a markedly different nature. What unites them with the main body of Anti… is the enduring presence of opposition.

These works explore the dualities of color and darkness, day and night, humor and melancholy, life and death. Each canvas manifests chaotic layers of pigment that mirror the turbulence of the cosmos—and, more intimately, of our planet. Embedded within the paint are physical imprints of bodies, including the artist’s own, evoking the tactile evidence of material existence: the first, most primal layer—the raw.

Among these impressions, fragments of poetry and free-written text in Greek and Russian appear, symbolizing the unseen strata of human experience—our inner voice, our soul, our spirit.