You Are My Home, 2026

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

This artwork is shipped rolled in a protective tube (unstretched) for safe international delivery. The canvas includes an additional 2 inches (5 cm) of material on each side for professional stretching on a wooden frame. The dimensions stated in the listing refer to the final size of the artwork after stretching.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

What makes someone feel like home? Perhaps it is the rare experience of being completely at ease in another person’s presence, when silence feels comfortable and even the most ordinary moments become something we wish could last a little longer.

Drawing on the tradition of Dutch genre painting, the artist reinterprets domestic life through a contemporary lens. She gives everyday intimacy a significance once reserved for religious subjects, suggesting that the sacred may be found in the simplest expressions of love and care.

Within the  series, these moments become part of our emotional memory. We may forget the details of an ordinary afternoon, yet remember the feeling of belonging to someone and being entirely ourselves in their presence. Sometimes, what we remember as home is a person.

Madeleine series

In the Madeleine series, Daria Pogodina turns to the phenomenon of involuntary memory, known in psychology and culture as the “Proust effect.” The artist explores how ordinary objects and sensory impressions from the past are transformed into emotional anchors—inner pillars of the self.

The objects and images chosen by the author—such as a mother’s sweater, childhood food, or the voice of a television announcer—become points of access to the unconscious resources of the psyche, places of comfort and stabilization. Without falling into nostalgic idealization, Pogodina captures the subtle mechanism of interaction between the conscious and the unconscious, where the mundane becomes sacred, and seemingly banal details acquire profound meaning.

These works are not about escaping the present into the past, but about seeking inner light and strength in both personal and collective experience—a testament to the human ability to find resilience in the everyday during times of crisis.