POINT NEMO

Kate Beliavskaya

July 9 — August 1, 2021
Triumph Gallery

The displayed visual series by Kate Beliavskaya was created when international borders were closed, Russia was in lockdown, and the world was being confined to the space of one’s own flat, its small scale barely beginning to feel like everyday reality.

Triumph Gallery presents the exhibition by Kate Beliavskaya. The displayed visual series by Kate Beliavskaya was created when international borders were closed, Russia was in lockdown, and the world was being confined to the space of one’s own flat, its small scale barely beginning to feel like everyday reality. According to Kate, pressured by the unstable and uncertain reality, her subconscious began to devise contrived boundaries and fears. The artist wanted to set herself free of this impending claustrophobia, albeit just through her imagination; free and into the most spacious world, one without routine and as she herself fashioned it.

Nephropidae and Hippocampus
2021
Paper, color print
93 × 124 cm

Triumph Gallery presents the exhibition by Kate Beliavskaya. The displayed visual series by Kate Beliavskaya was created when international borders were closed, Russia was in lockdown, and the world was being confined to the space of one’s own flat, its small scale barely beginning to feel like everyday reality. According to Kate, pressured by the unstable and uncertain reality, her subconscious began to devise contrived boundaries and fears. The artist wanted to set herself free of this impending claustrophobia, albeit just through her imagination; free and into the most spacious world, one without routine and as she herself fashioned it.

This utopia unfolds before our eyes in the waters of the Pacific, somewhere near the pole of inaccessibility, also known as Point Nemo. Deducted mathematically, this point in the ocean is equidistant from all land. This incredibly colourful space has no closed borders; it is inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures from various parts of the world. Their genesis remains unclear: according to one version, these people moved underwater to escape the fallout of an environmental catastrophe. Another version claims they are mutants, born from crossbreeding of underwater creatures with space aliens, who crash landed here on an old spacecraft. Whatever the true story, observing this world from an imagined sea submersible, the viewer sees a host of unusual characters inhabiting it.

Hippocampus
2021
Paper, color printing
∅ 64 cm

This utopia unfolds before our eyes in the waters of the Pacific, somewhere near the pole of inaccessibility, also known as Point Nemo. Deducted mathematically, this point in the ocean is equidistant from all land. This incredibly colourful space has no closed borders; it is inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures from various parts of the world. Their genesis remains unclear: according to one version, these people moved underwater to escape the fallout of an environmental catastrophe. Another version claims they are mutants, born from crossbreeding of underwater creatures with space aliens, who crash landed here on an old spacecraft. Whatever the true story, observing this world from an imagined sea submersible, the viewer sees a host of unusual characters inhabiting it.

Artistic work by Kate Beliavskaya incorporates techniques from book illustration, including children’s books, and industrial design. This series uses digital graphics, enabling an expression of the diversity and variety of utopias through bright colours, meticulous detail, and broad range of narratives in each piece. The technique and style in Kate’s work is reminiscent of the Japanese prints, which were an inspiration for this series. By Kate’s admission, the dynamic forms, light linework and emphasis on subtle emotional nuance, the hallmark features of Japanese art, helped her to add more expression and character to the protagonists in this series. All works share a single style, which helps to further immerse the viewer into the alternative reality and let her become a free diver exploring the vast ocean and meeting its inhabitants.

Сurator: Marina Bobileva

Lophius
2021
Paper, color printing
∅ 64 cm

Artistic work by Kate Beliavskaya incorporates techniques from book illustration, including children’s books, and industrial design. This series uses digital graphics, enabling an expression of the diversity and variety of utopias through bright colours, meticulous detail, and broad range of narratives in each piece. The technique and style in Kate’s work is reminiscent of the Japanese prints, which were an inspiration for this series. By Kate’s admission, the dynamic forms, light linework and emphasis on subtle emotional nuance, the hallmark features of Japanese art, helped her to add more expression and character to the protagonists in this series. All works share a single style, which helps to further immerse the viewer into the alternative reality and let her become a free diver exploring the vast ocean and meeting its inhabitants.

Сurator: Marina Bobileva