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Characteers is the solo exhibition by artist Yelena Yemchuk, hosted at the Nonostante Marras exhibition space in Milan. The show brings together two series of works: a recent body of work (culminating in the publication YYY Depart Pour L’image, 2022), and Ten Years After(2006), created in collaboration with Antonio Marras.
The Characteers series encompasses all the figures that shape and define the artist’s imaginative universe—characters who permeate her representations through painted strokes, costumes, and set design. By breaking disciplinary boundaries, these works are constructed fragment by fragment into a surreal and enigmatic narrative. Moving across various disciplines and artistic languages that characterize Yemchuk’s oeuvre, the exhibition immerses visitors in an imaginary world populated by characters on the edge of reality—protagonists of intertwined stories that cross and blend into one another.
The final image is a kaleidoscope of stories and encounters—a space to fall in love with and lose oneself in the creation of these fantastical lives.
Yelena Yemchuk lives and works in New York. Born in Kyiv (Ukraine), she moved to America at the age of eleven. She studied Visual Arts at Parsons School of Design and later Photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Her fashion photography has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Dazed & Confused, AnOther, Numéro, TAR Magazine, The New Yorker, among others.Notable exhibitions include Gidropark, Gitterman Gallery, New York (2011), and Ten Years After, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006).
This exhibition is presented as part of Photo Vogue Festival 2022
Characteers
From November 18, 2022, to January 8, 2023
NonostanteMarras, via cola di rienzo 8, 20144, Milano
