YULIYA LANINA: PLAY WITH ME / October 27-December 31, 2006

  

Yuliya Lanina is a contemporary folklorist. She reaches back into the primordial memory of mankind to breach the deep seated emotions which rarely find accommodation in everyday life. If the images in her work scare us, it’s because we mistakenly marry artistic vision with the common sense of attitudes which rule all the little decisions in our lives. But Lanina’s work is a template to the unconscious world, in which truth glimmers under the bloody fingernails of a psychotic baby who is actually the god of the woods, wearing his innocence like a crocodile sheds his tears, with malevolence and guile.