Breakfast in Pajamas, 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

Breakfast in Pajamas belongs to the  series, where memory is built from intimate rituals, familiar objects, and the emotional charge of shared time. In this painting, the breakfast table becomes a private gathering place — not formal, not performative, but deeply human. Coffee cups, books, fruit, flowers, animals, and relaxed figures create the atmosphere of a morning where closeness does not need explanation.

The work speaks about a rare kind of intimacy: the comfort of being seen without being staged. Pajamas here are not merely a domestic detail, but a sign of trust — the state in which people meet each other before social roles, defenses, and appearances return. Within the logic of , the painting preserves this fragile space of friendship, kinship, and chosen belonging, where ordinary morning light becomes a quiet form of love.

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.