The exhibition “A Gaze” is dedicated to the theme of the feeling of liminal space in Daria Barybina’s art. In the works presented in the exhibition, the artist works with images of everyday life – recognisable elements of everyday life. Barybina turns to the realistic manner, adding to it surrealistic details that deprive the composition of works of naturalism. This technique creates a sense of inconsistency in her works, as if something is about to happen in the plane of the image and lead to the natural order of things.

Barybina’s works attract the eye, make you look closely, search for some element that resolves the irreality and precariousness of their space. Such active observation gives an opportunity to feel the process of perception of the surrounding reality – it does not reveal itself completely, leaving even in the most ordinary manifestations a metaphysical gap between itself and the perceiver.

The final work of the exhibition – “White Noise” – acts as a metaphor of uniformity, a sense of vacuum, changing the previous strategies of the viewer’s perception: from active to rest.

Curator: Ekaterina Podobueva