Older sister, 2023

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.

About the artwork :
"This work reflects my deep belief that happiness is an inherent right of every individual, and even if reality was different, we can breathe life into these dreams through art. 'Older sister' tells a story of how, by rewriting the scripts of the past, we can find strength and inspiration to create a new future filled with joy and prosperity. Through this piece, I aim to not only reconstruct the unfelt joys and unexperienced successes of my forebears but also to challenge the viewer to contemplate the healing power of imagination. By visually manifesting the happiness that history denied, I invite an exploration of the 'what ifs' that reside within our collective memory. It is a narrative that intertwines the threads of what was, what could have been, and what can still be, in a tapestry of reclaimed heritage and hopeful tomorrow."

Series Archive of happiness. Unlived Chronicles
This is a way for me to work through the trauma of generations who were deprived of the opportunity to have happy years of childhood youth and maturity throughout the 20th century. My family's photos and stories are full of sadness and pain, unfulfilled dreams and broken destinies. The Soviet government was engaged in the dispossession, and displacement of people, families were forced to abandon their homes. I want to create a false archive in which generations of my family were happy. My task as an artist is to rewrite the script, to give voice and image to what my ancestors dreamed of but could not get. I paint the carefree times that didn't exist, in which they were happy, living in their beautiful rich houses, studying, meeting their love, gathering as a big family for holidays, and whispering each other secrets about suitors. For me it is a way to come to terms with the trauma of generations condemned to survival instead of life, to create a personal image of a future of joy and prosperity, and to show society and others with similar backgrounds that liberation lies not in suffering but in rethinking and strength.