Vector Fields. Ekaterina Lazareva

14 September – 28 October 2023

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Atticus Art Gallery announces Vector Fields, a solo exhibition presenting new work that unfolds at the intersection of painting and installation. Emerging from a life shaped by the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent relocations across Europe, the practice reflects a condition of displacement and a search for provisional forms of belonging. The works probe how fragility, repetition, and divergence structure perception and relation.

The paintings are built through successive layers of translucent pigment on darkened grounds, creating atmospheric depths in which form wavers, never quite resolving. Frequently organised as diptychs, these canvases initially appear identical, only to reveal gradual and subtle deviations. Rather than reproducing the logic of the mirror, they transform duplication into a generative difference.

This inquiry is extended spatially in the installation practice. Thread, fragile yet tensile, is used to construct ephemeral geometries that remake architectural space. These lines demand a corporeal response, prompting viewers to shift, reorient, and inhabit the tension of the work. Despite their delicacy, the structures demonstrate resilience, exposing the invisible infrastructures of connection and division.

For Vector Fields, this logic takes form in a site-specific installation. Strands of red filament traverse the corner of the gallery, weaving a lattice that oscillates between order and dissolution. What appears as symmetry from one perspective fractures into instability from another, offering a poetics of near-symmetry. The piece resonates with the generative patterns of Islamic mosaics, yet instead of transcendence it insists on the provisional, the contingent, the vulnerable.

At its core, Vector Fields frames fragility not as deficiency but as a vital condition through which perception, relation, and belonging are continually reimagined. The exhibition is less an object of display than an encounter of dislocation and reorientation, where seeing becomes inseparable from inhabiting.

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