“The Rape of Europa” (2024) by Shklatar Collective unfolds as a hyperreal simulation of the ancient myth, where the boundary between the symbolic and the real collapses under the weight of contemporary Europe’s disintegration. This installation is not merely an artwork; it is a simulacrum of Europe itself, suspended in the endless oscillation of meaning, power, and collapse, just as the kneeler upon which the frail figure of Europa rocks, endlessly but aimlessly, suspended in a void.

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Shklatar Collective:
Alexander Adamau
Vasilisa Palianina
Andrey Anro

Photo: Viktoria Adamava. Warsaw, 2024 Text: Andrey Anro, 2024

This installation is not merely an artwork; it is a simulacrum of Europe itself, suspended in the endless oscillation of meaning, power, and collapse, just as the kneeler upon which the frail figure of Europa rocks, endlessly but aimlessly, suspended in a void.

Piasok (eng. sand) is a one-day exhibition by Andrey Anro, Vasilisa Palianina and Alexander Adamau, which rethinks the changes in the life of Eastern European society.

Society is a collection of units that have received new properties in their sum and mass. Just like sand, it sticks together under the density of time and crumbles again before lightning strikes. And again a new shape like glass and new properties like delicate transparency.

Artists talk about this fragility, memory, constant transformation of materials and ideas with the help of their artworks made over the past two years.

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Andrey Anro, Leshy, 30 x 40 cm, oil on linen, 2022

Andrey Anro, Scream, 30 x 40 cm, oil on linen, 2022

Andrey Anro, Thick cloud of yellowish smoke, 40 x 50 cm, oil on linen, 2022

Andrey Anro, The Church; 16 x 9, video, 2023

Vasilisa Palianina, Wet Hands; 205 x 145 mm; paper book, printing; 2023

Vasilisa Palianina, Blessed Rain from series “Forest’s Faces”
187 x 34 × 84 cm; ceramics, 2023

Vasilisa Palianina, Mermaid; 28 × 24 × 3 cm; papier mache, pearl; 2023

Aliaxandar Adamaŭ, Harrow, 140 x 90 x 77 cm; leather, metal; 2023

Aliaxandar Adamaŭ, Riza, 26 x 25 x 1 cm; food foil, aluminum tape; 2023

Aliaxandar Adamaŭ Children’s down jacket, 75 x 30 x 60 cm; emergency blanket, syntepon; 2022-2023

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First exhibition Piasok.
Warsaw, Poland, Shklatar Gallery, 2023.
Photo: Andrey Anro

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Andrey Anro, Leshy
30 x 40 cm, oil on linen, 2022

Andrey Anro, Scream
30 x 40 cm, oil on linen, 2022

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Andrey Anro, Thick cloud of yellowish smoke, 40 x 50 cm, oil on linen, 2022

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Andrey Anro, The Church
16 x 9, video
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Alexander Adamau, Riza
26 x 25 x 1 cm; food foil, aluminum tape
2023

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Vasilisa Palianina, Blessed Rain from series “Forest’s Faces”
187 x 34 × 84 cm; ceramics, 2023

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Aliaxandar Adamaŭ Children’s down jacket, 75 x 30 x 60 cm; emergency blanket, syntepon; 2022-2023

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Vasilisa Palianina, Wet Hands
205 x 145 mm; paper book, printing
2023

Vasilisa Palianina, Mermaid
28 × 24 × 3 cm; papier mache, pearl
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