Between the Seasons
The exhibition brings together works by Oleksandr Anokhin, Alina Anokhina, and ceramic objects by Natura Ceramica. Working across oil pastel, painting, and ceramics, the participants explore the human condition shaped by recent history, personal experience, and emotional resilience.
Anokhin presents works executed in the rare and demanding medium of oil pastel. His compositions depict seemingly ordinary scenes marked by subtle distortion. Realism and surreal tension coexist, revealing figures who continue their daily lives while carrying visible and invisible traces of trauma. The softness and immediacy of oil pastel become a vehicle for psychological observation and quiet unease.
Anokhina’s paintings focus on the female figure as a bearer of emotional, physical, and symbolic presence. Her works navigate between reality and dream, where mysticism functions not as escape, but as a means of processing lived experience. Disproportion, layered imagery, and the interplay between painterly and graphic elements form a visual language in which vulnerability and strength remain inseparable.
The ceramic works by Natura Ceramica introduce a material and tactile dimension to the exhibition. Rooted in the concept of biomimicry, their objects reflect organic processes, natural rhythms, and the beauty of imperfection. Rough textures, cracks, and irregular forms are embraced as essential elements, positioning the ceramic object as a mediator between nature, time, and human presence.
Together, the participants articulate a shared emotional landscape situated between rupture and renewal. Between the Seasons reflects a state of becoming, where endurance does not negate tenderness, and where faith in warmth, continuity, and human connection persists despite uncertainty.
Featured Artists:
Oleksandr Anokhin
Alina Anokhina
Natura Ceramica
