Triumph Gallery presents Katya Shinkareva’s personal project Dreams of Marble. The artist’s works depict hybrid spaces filled with fragments of the material and non-material world. Connecting thin unreal layers, Shinkareva brings reflection and subconscious processes to the surface.

The starting point for the creation of the series was the work of Michelangelo and other iconic works of classical art. Katya Shinkareva turns to marble and explores the forms that the material took on the will of the masters. The artist analyzes how classical images have settled in our subconscious, and considers the feelings of admiration and oversaturation associated with them. By transforming and splitting images into elements, Shinkareva offers a new approach that pays tribute to classical forms and focuses on their decay.

M. V
2022

Triumph Gallery presents Katya Shinkareva’s personal project Dreams of Marble. The artist’s works depict hybrid spaces filled with fragments of the material and non-material world. Connecting thin unreal layers, Shinkareva brings reflection and subconscious processes to the surface.

The starting point for the creation of the series was the work of Michelangelo and other iconic works of classical art. Katya Shinkareva turns to marble and explores the forms that the material took on the will of the masters. The artist analyzes how classical images have settled in our subconscious, and considers the feelings of admiration and oversaturation associated with them. By transforming and splitting images into elements, Shinkareva offers a new approach that pays tribute to classical forms and focuses on their decay.

When creating works, Katya starts from the visual image that has arisen, which she then comprehends for a long time. She photographs fragments of the surrounding world, collects a palette of images and associations and creates the first sketches. The artist often returns to the works, changing and supplementing them, so painting a picture becomes a process, the result of which can be unpredictable or change over time.

Shinkareva seeks to convey states consisting of non-verbal symbols and signs. For her, this becomes a way of self-knowledge and understanding the boundaries of feeling.

Curator: Marina Bobyleva

Untitled
2020

When creating works, Katya starts from the visual image that has arisen, which she then comprehends for a long time. She photographs fragments of the surrounding world, collects a palette of images and associations and creates the first sketches. The artist often returns to the works, changing and supplementing them, so painting a picture becomes a process, the result of which can be unpredictable or change over time.

Shinkareva seeks to convey states consisting of non-verbal symbols and signs. For her, this becomes a way of self-knowledge and understanding the boundaries of feeling.

Curator: Marina Bobyleva