Guided tour in English of the exhibition: Sana Shahmuradova Tanska: The Rapture

On Saturday 13 December, at 12 noon, you are welcome to visit the English-language guided tour of the exhibition: Sana Shahmuradova Tanska The Rapture. Your guide will be the artist and educator Daria Rzepiela.

The Rapture is the first solo exhibition of one of the most distinctive artists of the youngest generation of Ukrainian art, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska (born 1996, Odesa).

In her paintings, Shahmuradova Tanska employs the theme of intergenerational trauma and motifs from dreams as tools for establishing contact and communication with her ancestors. The painter uses materials such as wood, jute, canvas and oil paints. The artist’s distinctive visual language, based on fluid, organic lines and luminous colour, evokes dreamlike, mythical landscapes in which figures fuse with their surroundings. Drawing on her personal history and responding to the current situation in Ukraine, her works become vehicles for both individual and collective experience, highlighting the violence and atrocities committed against Ukraine’s civilian population and nature by the aggressor state, Russia.

Admission is included in the exhibition ticket price. The meeting point: the MOCAK reception desk.

Host:

Daria Rzepiela – artist, educator, active in the fields of painting, design and animation. She studied at the École supérieure de design, d’art graphique et d’architecture intérieure (ESAG) Penninghen in Paris and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PhD in 2009. She is interested in non-verbal and polysemous narratives based on relationships. Art is a passion she shares with others. She has conducted workshops for, among others, the Fiver Children’s Foundation in New York, the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, the Film Spring Open festival, the National Children’s Fund, and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation.