Forward and strait
Daria Emelyanova’s practice explores the unstable territories of memory, imagination, and
autobiographical fiction. Working with figurative painting, she constructs a recurring female figure —
not a self-portrait, but a version of herself that emerges on the threshold between fact and fantasy,
dream and recollection.
Her paintings unfold as scenes that could have happened — but only within the imagination. They
are not records, but attempts to feel a possible “self” through the painted image. The canvas
becomes a site of internal myth-making, where personal history transforms not only into a subject,
but into a material.
The artist operates at the intersection of three psychoanalytic dimensions: the imaginary (as what is
possible yet unattainable), the symbolic (as the cultural framework into which her heroine is
inscribed), and the real — that which cannot be articulated, yet is always present as an elusive
shadow.
In her work, she does not illustrate reality, but rewrites it. This is not a gesture of representation, but
of gathering, imagining, and retelling the self anew.
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