The birth of Venus, 2011

Evgeniya Buravleva   New & remarkable Artists

Here is the story of this series straight from Evgeniya:
“The 'Story line' series was produced after several trips to England.
Although I traveled there for work, I had time to walk around London several times at different times of the day and in different seasons.

It was important for me to see the city in the rain or in the sun, with autumn trees or in the twilight of spring. But the main thing in these walks was loneliness. I hardly understood what was being said around me. People were moving very fast, they were living ordinary lives. I felt invisible, a ghost, it seemed that only houses, sculptures or flowers could see me. It was inexplicably beautiful. As if I were the spirit of the place. No one saw me, so everyone behaved naturally.

I imagined what would have happened if the sculpture of a Regent Park nymph had come to life and fled to town. A naked girl would wander the streets, study at home, sit on a bench in the park. Would you notice her? What would happen? Would you mistake a wonderful sight for a monster, an intruder?

From the plots I imagined, I had a story about a nymph and a city. Of the unrealizable and the real. About what it is, to be yourself in the city, and to see the city transformed into vapor and light. About what you imagine when you close your eyes, and only the sun is shining through your lashes. About other places you can fly when you are a spirit. And the nymph simply disappeared in front of the astonished police officers who tried to check her papers. "

Signed at the back.