Olesya Dzhurayeva, who describes herself as an insatiable observer of city life, invites us to a graphic walk through urban landscapes and moments of life. Each work exhibited is a snapshot of the daily choreography, a movement seized in the instant, an interplay of shade and light, an elegy to slowness.
Olesya Dzhurayeva, who describes herself as an insatiable observer of city life, invites us to a graphic walk through urban landscapes and moments of life. Each work exhibited is a snapshot of the daily choreography, a movement seized in the instant, an interplay of shade and light, an elegy to slowness.
By using the linocut technique (which consists of engraving a linoleum plate which is then covered with ink, making the pattern appear in white in contrast to the ink-covered relief), Olesya Dzhurayeva gives infinite depth and precision to her works.
Through her artistic gaze, we wander into the moment, we embrace the observer’s position and the poetry of each detail we usually do not consciously perceive. The urban rush becomes a possible aesthetic experience that resonates with our own relationship to space and time during the pandemic. What if a “time out” was actually a “time in”? Looking at Olesya Dzhurayeva’s works, we definitely embody the flâneur depicted by Franz Hessel in his novels, this flâneur who knows that: “Life is everywhere for you, free at any time of day, just don't get involved, enjoy everything, own nothing.” (Heimliches Berlin)
