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#review Dunya Zakharova Yakut multidisciplinary artist Dunya Zakharova works with textiles, installations, video, as well as design objects. Coming from Yakutia, the coldest inhabited place on the Earth, she focuses on the themes like pagan roots, full of myths and deep narratives, problem of its disappearance, embracing techniques that were traditionally relegated to the realm of “women’s crafts,” such as embroidering and sewing. pics: 1-2 EBE 3 ALGYS 4-5 CLOUD, Palisander gallery [explore more on Dunya's website] 👉 and read moreabout Yakut art in the text ‘Russian Art Beyond the Beaten Track: Yakutia‘ where </odra> together with Elena Vasileva, the curator of the exhibition projects at the Gagarin Center for Culture and Contemporary Art in Yakutsk, and art historian Yana Andriesh, explores Yakutia's culture and the context in which it has been actively developing in recent years.

#читалка или как пишут: начните день с английского языка. У платформы Odra, которая была создана по итогам Лаборатории новых медиа Винзавода, обновление. Интервью с художницей Машей Сомик, которая местами наивно, но в целом очень позитивно смотрит вокруг, что редкость. В ближайшее время платформа откроет опен-колл для пишущих на английском и про искусство. 🪴

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#reviewSasha Grom, Fences, 2019 </How Contemporary Artists Reflect On Rapidly Changing Kazan City's Landscape> by Daria Rakhmanova: “In the 2019 photo project “Fences”, Sasha Grom tries to uncover the reasons behind her own hostility towards these objects, a feeling of fear and lack of freedom. Through personal experience of perception, she comes to a conclusion that substantiates the nature of these emotions. She says: “In my project, I consider fences as a phenomenon. And I also try to understand my personal feelings and thoughts about that. Using the method of ‘self-replication’, comparison and interaction, I have understood that the fence draws the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’, provoking a feeling of alienation, paranoia and loss of freedom. At the same time, the very cause of the fence is fear of the external, the vast, the marginal. Fear begets lack of freedom. The result of my work is a series of group portraits, where the fence is the one being portrayed, while a person serves as the background”

#newinterview ODRA’s Natalia Borisova has interviewedMasha Somik, a well-known Russian contemporary artist, who refuses to follow traditional career paths in art and says that her collaborations with Russia’s leading fashion brands happen “as if by magic.” Masha Somik is a multidisciplinary abstract artist, based in Moscow. She has received a master’s degree in fine arts from the Camberwell College of Arts in London. Her works have been exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, Triumph gallery and GROUND Solyanka, among others. explore </odra> platform photos: Lisa Merkulova editing: Andrei Savenkov

preparing something with Maria Somik👀

все наши мечты сбудутся этим летом... </odra> has published an essay </Homecoming as a Dream> that is devoted to the “Homecoming“ exhibition, held in May, 2023 at the Art Kvartal in Yerevan, Armenia. Author Alina Dmitrieva: “My friends were more interested in discussing the pictures on the walls, while I immediately was captivated by the red teapot with peas motif and repeatedly told myself: “Don’t cry, don’t cry.” We had the same teapot in the garden, where our family spent all the weekends from spring to autumn, in the house that my grandfather has built himself. Now there is no grandfather, no garden with the house, no teapot. There is just a little bit of me left“ photos: Natalie Budagyan read: https://odraplatform.com/homecoming_as_a_dream

Since February 2022, contemporary artist Ksenia Ilina has been keeping a visual diary, summing up the imagery of each month into a zine. Through the process of creating a series of disrupted images in colors of fragility, Ilina reflects on how everyday occurrences have gained new (and often horrifying) meanings. Read an essay by Ekaterina Steshakova

Ksenia Ilina

#talks ODRA’s Katya Ceppel has talked to members of Abastan, a self-organized community in the mountains of Armenia. All united by a common ghost called the post-Soviet, some of them were forced to change their residence, some have changed it at will, but together they have launched construction of a new cultural center on the site of an abandoned factory, creating a space about hope, contemporary art, unity and trust. Abastan prefers not to call itself an art residency after stories of disappointment from participants: they openly declare that it is not only a residency with art laboratories and research of the local cultural code, but also a construction site. However, after the building would be completed, the Abastan team has big plans for cultural integration into the local community, along with the creation of their own. read

The exhibitions by @garagemca_academy graduates have garnered so much public attention in recent years that ODRA could not help but ask the curatorial team behind Point, one of the latest Garage x HSE installments, to narrate their creative process.

Today #viaMusic is brought to you by Valery Chtak to note the fact that his installation at CCI Fabrika is on show for the last few days. ‘It is easy to recognize his work, it’s conceptual, monochrome with witty and odd phrases written in different languages. “Everything is gray, there are some random letters...you cannot understand anything but it's funny,” is how Chtak himself describes them. Many people think he was initially a graffiti artist, so he starts by giving a warning shot that he has nothing to do with street art.’ By following each song’s link you will be able to choose your preferable player🎵🎧 Frank Zappa - Son of Mr. Green Genes Black Sabbath - The Wizard Can - Oh Yeah The Beatles - It's Only Love Melvins - Boris + as a bonus - a recording of a concert of Valery’s own band called Shthow’s Seths held in Voznesensky Center this September