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

For Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, artmaking became a compulsive way to process the anxiety of living in a war zoneTo look at Sana Shahmuradova Tanskas 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, fishlike forms anthropomorphic suns weeping over rural landscapes.Most of the paintings were created in the artists studio in Kyiv, Ukraine some before Russias full invasion of the country on 24 February 2022, and others immediately after.
Thats just how I keep track of time, she says.
Its like this line before and after.
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