Irina Drozd
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Irina Drozd explores the fragile world of childhood and adolescence: that shifting boundary where naivety meets anxiety and games with monsters turn into metaphors of growing up. Her characters look at us with utmost sincerity, whether it is a girl holding her breath over a red chest or children calmly coexisting with fantastic creatures. All this appears natural, as if it has always been that way. In her ceramics, the world of imaginary beings intertwines with everyday life, dream and reality. Small monsters become at once a symbol of fear and a reminder of how important it is to preserve the inner child, the one still able to discover the unknown with delight.
Dates: 05.12.2025 – 24.12.2025
Irina Drozd
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Place: Barcelona, Portal Nou, 35
📅 Opening houres: Monday - Thursday: 12.00 - 17.00
November 5 – Inaguration at DOM. 18:00–21:00 (Barcelona, Portal Nou, 35)
November 5 – Inaguration at DOM. 18:00–21:00 (Barcelona, Portal Nou, 35)
These images are never obvious. They ask questions: who are we, defenseless creatures ready to become victims of someone else’s whims, or calculating children merely playing at innocence? In response we hear the artist’s own voice: “I am here and there. Like many of you. I contemplate the movement and interaction of the forces of nature and the flow of life. There is no black and white, there are shades of grey on which much of my painting is built. One thing remains unchanged: the red color, the color of blood, life and strength.” The time of transition from childhood to youth in her works becomes a moment of choice and self-formation. The subjects allow us to look differently at the nature of good and evil; they do not destroy universal values but expand the field of their perception on the level of feeling, intuition and premonition. The viewer finds themselves in a space where the familiar loses its stability, and illusion and appearance prove to be no less real than obvious reality.