{"id":16970,"date":"2025-03-13T12:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?page_id=16970"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:20:17","slug":"%d0%b7%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b9%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%b0-%d0%b7%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%bb%d1%8f-familiar-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?page_id=16970","title":{"rendered":"\u0417\u043d\u0430\u0439\u043e\u043c\u0430 \u0437\u0435\u043c\u043b\u044f | Familiar Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are projects\u2013concepts, projects\u2013symbols, projects\u2013research, and there are projects\u2013therapy, such as Familiar Ground. When I was creating these works \u2014 every one of them \u2014 I sought to find balance and a certain gentle structure that would warm with a sense of safety, acting as therapy and support.<\/span><\/p>\n

Familiar Ground is about my search for inner grounding during a period when things were at their most difficult. It is a practice of accumulating strength \u2014 dense, like warm embraces. In these works, life itself is felt through color, which is mostly mature and experienced, soft and harmonious. <\/span>For me, earth is about heaviness and continuity \u2014 the slow passage from season to season: awakening, blooming, fading, enjoying the fruits, and finally, sleep. It is about something solid, a point of support, the force of gravity. And of course, it is also about the material: returning to the classical language of painting, to a familiar territory. That is why part of the project includes six ceramic sculptures from the Fantastic Mushrooms series.<\/span><\/p>\n

The works express different dynamics: from the warm, moving Serpen-time or Big Horizon to the philosophically gentle, cool Let\u2019s Talk or the subtly vibrating Mycelium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alena Kuznetsova<\/p>\n

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