Exhibition by Yulia Agenosova "Vow of Silence"

The "Vow of Silence" project enables the viewer to experience the "mystery" of existential experience in the conditions of the exhibition. The author assumes that even a vow of silence *, even insignificant in time, is able to immerse a person in the state necessary for meeting with his true self, dialogue with his inner self, the opportunity to see his fears, to feel his nature outside the social context. The language of abstract painting, the material of the image and the technique chosen by the author for this project contribute to the fastest and most direct immersion of the viewer into the atmosphere of intimate contemplation and reflection.

* The vow of silence is one of the sacred vows common in many cultures and religious movements of the world. The vow of silence can vary in length and ritual significance. It can last from a few minutes to several decades. The main purpose of the vow is self-contemplation, renunciation of the daily hustle and bustle. The vow of silence is not always understood in the literal sense, sometimes it just means that the person who gave it has vowed not to touch on any topic or topics in his conversations with other people, has given his word to keep a secret.

Hair - the material with which the artist has been working lately - has an extraordinary expressiveness and shocking effect: the artist depicts a part of a person, which at the moment of being depicted is no longer a part of it.

“I fix the moment when this part a second ago was the subject of a person’s pride, and in a moment it turns into an object perceived by him and his environment as something undesirable and even unpleasant, causing disgust. I suspect that this is due to a person’s unconscious fear of his finitude, vulnerability, fragility and, as a result, mortality ”- Yulia Agenosova.

The unwillingness and inability of a person to accept the fact of his inevitable death, the end of the existence of himself, his family, state, the world in his usual form, and the frustration associated with this rejection - becomes the subject of the author’s artistic practice.