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Exhibitions

Nastya Livadnova
Looking at the walls and imagining what's behind them

24 October — 25 November 2023
H4 XL Gallery

Nastya Livadnova
Looking at the walls and imagining what's behind them

On October 24, the XL Gallery will open the debut solo exhibition of the young artist Nastya Livadnova.

In the project "Look at the walls and imagine what's behind them", the artist presents a series of self-portraits made in a very non-canonical space for artistic expression - in a public toilet. It would seem that in the safest place. Meters of toilet paper flying in different directions, building a single living sculpture among themselves is what can be seen in Livadnova's photographs. According to the artist, the works are based on the principle "not to fight, but to play aggressively." This is all a visual conversation about boundaries and the impossibility of not crossing them when building your own.
The exhibition itself is two-part, which is rare on the Russian art scene.

The first part is a large–scale installation of 4-meter photos glued together. The second one is an audio-visual performance (it will take place on November 25), based on the plot of a photo for recorded but not yet released music demos by Nastya. The main character of the exhibition makes her debut in this genre, which gives the whole project the charm of completeness – in other words, "the charm of raw energy" (Anzor Kankulov, BLACKSQUARE magazine).

Complex and unpredictable forms of banal household objects are what can be seen in the upcoming series.