Some works in the project include human figures, yet their images lack detail: the faces of the protagonists are indistinguishable, and their poses are fleeting. In the central part of the exhibition, human figures disappear altogether, and the main protagonists become the landscape and individual elements of infrastructure. Daria considers the urban landscape as a random set of color patches, lines, and objects that form their own rhythm and enter into a visual dialogue with one another.
In the final room of the exhibition, the viewer is left alone with spaces that may belong to another reality—whether they are trompe-l'œil illusions or scenes from unsettling dreams. The familiar view of the surrounding world becomes destabilized as it moves away from the human, the natural, and the urban into emptiness. At the center is the question of what is a set, a construction, an addition—and what, if anything, is actually happening, if it can be grasped at all.
Curator: Marina Bobyleva