The bright contrasting colours of the installations highlight the beauty of nature and encourage the viewer to appreciate details, shapes and textures.
Installation ‘Forest’. Fragment. Artist Daria Panova
The mechanical gestures of spraying coloured sand, with which the installation process is made, carry their own particular meanings. They mark and accentuate, colouring and drawing attention only to certain objects and their properties, such as trees broken by time, intricately tangled dry branches - all those things that die off and regain new life.
The artist's studio is the whole world, and the exhibition starts from the moment of creation..
The technique of sand installations is about respecting the environment. The process involves spraying sand - a natural material that is widely used in landscape design. The coloured sand does not react chemically. A thin layer is sprayed on the surface, one rainy day is enough and there will be no trace of the bright colours.
Installation ‘Stvol’. Fragment. Artist Daria Panova
The creations are left to nature, erased over time, absorbed by natural processes, abandoning notions of art as a permanent object. It is an endless transformation - rain, snow, the change of seasons either takes away or brings a new vision to the appearance of the installation.
Installation ‘Forest’. Fragment. Artist Daria Panova
Of particular interest is the relationship with the viewer, an accidental witness of the exposition, walking in the forest, not prepared to be surprised as it happens in a museum or at an exhibition. The sincerity of feelings and the scale of the real space of the forest, as a symbiosis of the real and the unbelievable, make such an encounter magical, fairytale-like.
Installation ‘Korni’. Fragment. Artist Daria Panova