Before and After - Anastasia Zhikhartseva

22 februari 2025 - 12 mars 2025

Before and After - Anastasia Zhikhartseva

 18 februari 2025

Anastasia Zhikhartseva (b. 1986, Chukotka, USSR) is a Sweden- and France-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, printmaking, and installation. Her practice explores the visual language of emotions that shape our social lives yet often remain hidden and unspoken.

The exhibition Before and After brings together two graphical interpretations of social life—before and after Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine three years ago, an event that has shattered countless lives and reshaped reality. Series After consists of 3 silkscreen prints devoted to the Russian invasion into Ukraine and war in general. Zhikhartseva explores the visualization of war trauma and its damage to society. She examines how the silencing and denial of war’s horrors create a second layer of reality, where nightmares and everyday life coexist. Drawing from news feeds, she expresses the collective angst tied to society’s most pressing—and literally burning—issues. The Timelessness series (2021) includes 11 silkscreen prints and it is devoted to the exploration of portraiture through the scale of emotions. Protagonists of these works, along with their lives and relationships, are frozen in time being caught like insects in amber in a state of anxious anticipation. In another part of the exhibition, prints depict daily life infused with elements of magical realism.

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Cecilia Edefalk & Elina Eriksson

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