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 Krotova Dasha    Press Article    Press Article

 

Dasha Krotova focuses on the insignificant things of life, on that which has been lost. For her, the very material with which she works ceramics is precious through its peculiar, extreme fragility. Unlike bronze, marble,and all that which is used to impart longevity to an object, ceramics break easily. Ceramics have a strange type of eternity -that of remains, of the fragment, which the archaeologist will one day find during an excavation.

The fragile and the ephemeral, the insignificant, the every-day suddenly become eloquent as the years and centuries go by. They do not so much speak of the tastes and aesthetics of the time, but rather of mankind itself. Ceramics are a testimony, a sign, burnt clay, malleable material, a metaphor for human flesh itself, which bears marks of time and change.

That which has been discarded, lost, forgotten -in a way this is all about us; these are the traces of our changes and dramas, of our fate, which we try to erase and hide. In our race for eternal youth and beauty, those lost and discarded elements are what we literally eject from our lives and render invisible. Dasha Krotova focuses on the invisible -not in a mystical sense, but rather on the socially invisible. This social “evil” is not the one reported In newspapers. Rather, it is that which we banish from ourselves as antienvironment. Our contemporary lives are being recorded somewhere in a very different script -beyond everyday life. This script is not necessarily alphabetical.

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