I'm stronger than you think and even than I think, 2022

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

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Dasha Pogodina:
"I create the art in my private studio with high-quality canvas, oil paints, and a lot of love and inspiration. The colors are durable for many years, you can pass this painting on as a family heritage."

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QUALITY OF THE ARTWORK:
Top-quality professional oil paints and canvas or panels are used. Materials give you museum-quality oil paintings with textured, vibrant, and rich colors. The artwork will be sent and packaged professionally and with great care for delivery. To protect your picture, we will personally carefully fold your picture using high-quality material.

About the artwork
In the «I am not a hero» series, I problematize the ideal of humanistic discourse about a future world where physical violence will become obsolete and our bodies will be safe.
I draw on my own experience living through the change of worldviews during the war.
As an author, I work with corporality as the only material for obtaining mental and material experience. The world still welcomes the beautiful death of the Hero, like the ancient world of Greece, while at the same time affirming the modern values ​​of security and moderation with the new Heroism.
I conceptualize bodily security through the image of a female-hero looking at me from the narrative of history and literature - Lady Godiva, Gerda, Jeanne d'Arc I use the metaphor of the body as a text that retells its own story of vulnerability.
I explore the body's ability to remain open and vulnerable while the outside world puts on armor and urges it to fight. Modern society still requires people to be eaten up by dragons, calming their vigilance with a discourse about total equality.
My main interest in this series is the ability of the body to evolve through pleasure and pain. My heroes, with their vulnerability, prove the inconsistency of Sartre's theory of the Other, which still leads to the logic of conflict and war. At the same time, I fix the unwillingness of society to move into the logic of the Other Levinas, which translates communication with the Other into a completely non-violent discourse.
My characters consciously choose to remain vulnerable in order to stay alive and feel, not to escape reality and not anesthetize feelings so as not to lose touch with the truth Characters do not cover their bodies with clothing or shields, finding new resources of courage and accepting the fact of their vulnerability as part of life.