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A forest of cravings
Exhibition November 15 − December 6, 2023
"Hell is others," said the philosopher Sartre through the mouth of a character in his play Behind Closed Doors. "If a relationship with another person is poisoned, distorted, it can only be hell," Sartre explained the meaning of this popular phrase. "After all, we evaluate ourselves in terms of the concepts offered to us by those around us." Before being hell for us, others are substances: we get hooked on people tighter than oxygen, can't live without them, freely cross back and forth the line between "love" and "can't" until we find ourselves in co-dependent relationships. Tatyana Stolyar, journalist, collector and #culturalStolyar from the Antiglianets telegram channel, celebrates her exit from such relationships, her symbolic return from the underworld, with the exhibition "Forest of Addictions".
In the course of this personal epic, Stolyar could not help but become interested in the phenomenon of addiction. In order to nurture the will to make constructive choices, for several months she commissioned her favorite artists to create works on the subject of addictions, fatal and not so fatal. "Forest of Addictions" summarizes a significant and difficult episode in Stoliar's biography and shows the works that motivated her to get out of this thicket.
There are nine works in the exhibition, based on the number of months Stolyar spent in the relationship. She did not restrict the artists in any way in their choice of subject matter or techniques - Stoliar did not know what the work would look like, and each time she received a surprise from the artists. Painting, ceramics, fabric, found objects and living plants: the variety of textures further demonstrates that attraction can take on any guise. The intonation of the works ranges from confessional (Pavel Markov) to elegiac (Artem Filatov). From magical personifications of addiction (Babes 18:22) to a light-hearted enumeration of alternatives (Apollinaria Brochet). The chamber exhibition shows the diversity within the new generation of artists who grew up in the era of destigmatization of psychological help, and gives hope that it is possible to get out of the thicket of any thickness thanks to friendly support, willpower and the ability to look at oneself and one's cravings from the outside.
In the course of this personal epic, Stolyar could not help but become interested in the phenomenon of addiction. In order to nurture the will to make constructive choices, for several months she commissioned her favorite artists to create works on the subject of addictions, fatal and not so fatal. "Forest of Addictions" summarizes a significant and difficult episode in Stoliar's biography and shows the works that motivated her to get out of this thicket.
There are nine works in the exhibition, based on the number of months Stolyar spent in the relationship. She did not restrict the artists in any way in their choice of subject matter or techniques - Stoliar did not know what the work would look like, and each time she received a surprise from the artists. Painting, ceramics, fabric, found objects and living plants: the variety of textures further demonstrates that attraction can take on any guise. The intonation of the works ranges from confessional (Pavel Markov) to elegiac (Artem Filatov). From magical personifications of addiction (Babes 18:22) to a light-hearted enumeration of alternatives (Apollinaria Brochet). The chamber exhibition shows the diversity within the new generation of artists who grew up in the era of destigmatization of psychological help, and gives hope that it is possible to get out of the thicket of any thickness thanks to friendly support, willpower and the ability to look at oneself and one's cravings from the outside.
