Installation With Large-scale Paintings, Thematising Paintings as a Creation of Alternative Reality

Student: Alika Galimova

Educational Programme: Contemporary Art (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2024

In this study, I examine the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with historical changes from the mid-20th century to the present day. The trauma associated with the past war, contemporary conflicts in which civilians suffered, and the threat of a “nuclear holocaust” brought together artists who sought new methods of expressing a candid view of the world. The creation of works that respond unconventionally to the historical context, although it is a certain type of escapism, but at the same time becomes a manifesto of the internal freedom that the author receives when trying to comprehend the course of history and his place in it.

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