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Internal challenge

2022
Materials: non-woven fabric, acrylic
5 см x 78 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 092961
250 000
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About the Artist

Daria Kalugina was born in Alchevsk in 1998 Lives and works in Moscow. Graduated with aBachelor’s degree from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and PublicAdministration (RANEPA) (2019) and a Master’s degree from HSE ART AND DESIGNSCHOOL in the Contemporary Painting program curated by Vladimir Dubosarsky andOksana Simatova (2022). Participant of the contemporary art fair |catalog| (2024). The soloexhibition "Heartstanding" was held at SISTEMA GALLERY in 2024

Daria Kalugina draws on fragments from her childhood and personal family memories as the starting point for her art. By weaving together various events, the artist constructs a visual embodiment of childhood impressions that resist easy verbal description. Kalugina explores

the convergence of a child’s world and an adult’s world — two realms that perceive reality in fundamentally different ways. Incorporating personal experience into her projects allows her to reframe questions of growing up and collective memory. Working in acrylic, pastel, and pencil, Kalugina merges painting and drawing just as childhood memories merge with an adult perspective on life. A multiexposure technique lends her works an ephemeral quality.