Triumph Gallery presents a personal exhibition of Yanina Boldyreva "Black Calendar". The project will combine a new series of large-scale graphic works and an installation in the author’s technique.

In Black Calendar series, the conditional current world is presented as a monochrome universe, which refers to the images of Platonov and the Strugatsky brothers. The characters in the works are trying to construct their own world and adapt to reality after the apocalypse. In this dystopian space, people are impersonal, and the structure of society is strictly regulated.

Yanina started work on a new project after a trip to the Arctic Circle in 2020. Scientific and technological progress and its reverse side, fear of nature and its destructive conquest, the necessary coexistence of people and the temporality of ties between them — these contradictions, which are perceived more sharply in the North, bring one of the negative scenarios for the development of the modern world closer. The use of bituminized paper, a non-environmental product of oil refining, has become symbolic in the context of the project. In the test: the material does not absorb paint well, so the created image undergoes transformations in the process.

In her projects, Yanina Boldyreva captures the transitional states of a person and the surrounding world. She takes the position of an observer who passes events through personal experience and discovers consonances and parallels. Combining recognizable and imaginary images, various themes, Yanina’s works are close to the modern worldview, saturated with states of crisis, conflict, destruction, and at the same time — hope and desire for creation.

Curator: Marina Bobyleva