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opening of "Between Layers" exhibition | January 25, 2025, 6pm

HOS gallery

BETWEEN LAYERS

Dina DINKA Leonova

opening: January 25, 2025, 18:00—21:00

exhibition: January 28—March 22, 2025


Join us for the opening of Dina DINKI Leonova's solo exhibition Between Layers.


The opening will take place at the headquarters of the HOS Gallery at 5 Dzielna Street on Saturday, January 25, from 18:00-21:00.


DINKA's semi-transparent watercolors reflect the multi-layered nature of the artist's experience. The technique is one of the fast ones, as well as easy to make mistakes, which is a constant reminder that they are inherent in creative action. The artist allows herself not to be perfect. She disagrees with placing the concept above the person, and appreciates authenticity.


The experience of double migration has been marked by imbalance and the fear that accompanies daily life. The works embody it, and are evidence of the acceptance of a difficult emotion and its cold, overpowering embrace. Through literal annihilation and tearing in her latest works, the artist confronts her fear.


For DINKA, the act of creating is an act of grounding. When painting, she seeks to immortalize her surroundings, loved ones, or ultimately herself. The self-portraits emanate from the perception of the self as the center, from which further contexts depart. The most important thing is what is ordinary and real. Sometimes, however, she depicts allegorical subjects, and her works are filled with fanciful hybrid beings. They express a sense of alienation in exile, a metaphorical amputation and leaving behind part of one's identity and gaining a new one instead.


He experiments with acrylic and oil, giving them a watered-down, watercolor-like consistency. He seeks answers to the question of whether certain things will be better expressed and told by another medium. He dilutes the paints, giving them a watercolor-like consistency. The texture of the canvas is quite different from that of paper, ambiguous. Her latest works reflect her current life transformation, the discovery of new human connections, and close observation from a distance. Previously, she documented herself through intimate watercolor self-portraits, as if in the form of a diary. Now she looks at her loved ones, searching for common connections. She looks at her son as a reflection of the future and the past at the same time, leading to her own transformation and becoming someone new.


Curator: Marianna Łomża




The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw


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