Amid air raids and electricity shortages, a Ukrainian artist paints the Russian invasion
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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:26 +0200
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For Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, art-making became a compulsive way to process the anxiety of living in a war zoneTo look at Sana Shahmuradova Tanska’s paintings is to sense that something is awry, without quite knowing why.
A series of canvases hanging in Artspace in Woolloomooloo as part of the Biennale of Sydney depicts strange, fantastical scenes that walk a line between Dionysian and dystopic: naked female figures in molten, fiery landscapes; mussels with moony faces swimming next to protean, fish-like forms; anthropomorphic suns weeping over rural landscapes.Most of the paintings were created in the artist’s studio in Kyiv, Ukraine – some before Russia’s “full invasion” of the country on 24 February 2022, and others immediately after.
“That’s just how I keep track of time,” she says.
“It’s like this line before and after.” Continue reading...
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