SISTEMA GALLERY presents samuill marshak’s personal project “TA-TA-TA”. It explores how perception and memory function in a volatile situation. The desire to find sustenance leads the mind to simple pleasures, which the artist depicts in the form of basic pleasant images familiar since childhood: home, sky, grass, flowers, rainbows, cake and more. The objects are portrayed enlarged, and this emphasises a focus of attention, a deliberate selectivity of vision. The large candy-coloured canvases of this series are ‘facades’ of perception, covering undesirable realities. Anything unpleasant rolls down the “forgetting curve” and smears out. This autistic state, by the artist, is one of withdrawal and displacement of the dangerous world around us. Yet in the naïve manner of this painting series, in its artistic “irregularity” and incompleteness, there remains a sense of unease that these sets conceal.