Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art presents the Sacred Corner exhibition project: 30 stories told by 30 Perm-based female artists
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Artworks offering a glimpse into the innermost corners of a woman’s soul
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An unusual exhibition space wherein every artist created her own ‘sacred corner’
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A wide range of feelings and worldviews conveyed through a variety of styles and media
What is it that keeps women going through all temporary hardships, helping them, through thick or thin, find joy in life, run the home, take care of kids, and preserve the long-established way of life? Intuition? Tradition passed down from the ancestors? Natural instinct? Faith? Sense of duty? Or is it something else?
This revelatory exhibition offers a glimpse into the innermost corners of a woman’s soul, a chance to marvel at the artists’ diversity, feel their solidarity, and ultimately identify with each of the stories being ‘told’ by them. On this rare occasion women will relate to a random viewer, essentially a stranger, something that is hardly ever discussed even with the nearest and dearest.
Everything that is harboured deep within the soul makes up its ‘sacred corner,’ a place that only a chosen few can access. We cherish and protect it, lock it away or veil it from the prying eyes. Only infrequently do we look inside and reverently contemplate our carefully selected treasures.
What are these treasures? Every participating artist will provide her own answer, albeit perhaps not a direct one. Still, individual voices will sound, and it is up to the viewer to discern them.
The artists drew lots to determine their exact place in the exhibition space and came up with their own versions of the sacred corner, a kind of ‘altar’ intended to share certain feelings and values – both common to many women and deeply private.
The project brings together 30 Perm-based female artists: Maria Arkhipova, Ksenia Kozlova, Maria Kolyvanova, Anna Chugainova, Olga Subbotina, Olga Khromova, Marina Erkovich, Tatiana Necheukhina, Irina Pyankova, Anna Demidova, Elena Postnova, Victoria Ushakova, Olga Korobeinikova, Ksenia Korobeinikova, Anna Shaidurova, Anna Burdina, Valentina Solovyova, Olga Molchanova-Permyakova, Ksenia Zhornitskaya, Iya Milashina, Olga Nikitina, Yulia Trubina, Tatiana Baryshnikova, Evgenia Baldina, Marina Kudrina, Yana Dorofeyeva, Elena Murgina-Zagarskikh, Lidia Erokhina, Natalia Tsaryovnikova, and Eva Nurulina.
