SUEÑOS EN CAUTIVERIO (5thMay - 5th July) by Anastasiia Parshina
exhibition/performance, presention: 5thMay - 6pm - 8pm
at AH! Calçada de Sant’Ana 169 R/R, Lisboa
ABOUT NEW COLLECTION
Key words: dream, escape from reality, unseen world, liberty.
Strongly inspired by Latin American literature, Anastasia begins drawing fantastic worlds, imagining universes similar to those read in the novels of Cortazar, Marquez or Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Moving to a new country, where everything is new and unusual, allowed Anastasia to create a new reality on canvas, transferring far from reality – into vivid dreams, memories of the past and fantasies about the future.
The exhibition SUEÑOS EN CAUTIVERIO was born out of this observation and, with a voyeuristic look, strives for the expressive materialization of those moods in which a person finds himself in a period of global changes and acceptance of a new reality.
Bright colors, geometric shapes emphasize the silhouettes and character of the bodies.
And nudity indicates the sincerity of the artist in his feelings, transferring all the action into the free reality of dreams and fantasies.
BIOGRAPHY
Anastasiia Parshina – 25 y.o. artist. Was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 11, 1998. Lived two years in Mexico, and now living in the South France.
Her artistic lifestyle started from childhood visiting museums, exhibitions, theatrical performances, which prompted her to devote her life to art. Having committed 10 years in an art school, attending studios and master classes of different artists, Anastasiia entered in the 2016 in Stiglitz Academy of Art and Design (Saint Petersburg, Russia) to study Architectural Environment Design. During her studies, she participated in several competitions of design and architecture but mostly in exhibitions as «Palette» Paris, France (2014), «Chair» Maykop, Russia (2017), «Northern landscape design», Petrozavodsk, Karelia (2018), HackaDark design hackathon Stieglitz Academy + ITMO University + CLD, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2019), «Flowers&Forms», Union of Artist of St. Petersburg (2020). In 2020, Anastasiia entered the at ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) for a master's degree in Lighting Design, where she is still studying.
In 2020 she moved to Mexico were joined Bestiario Laboratorio Teatral de Tulum. As a designer she created a website, video visualization, scenery and a series of illustrations and merch for the theater company. As an artist exposed her paintings in several galleries in Mexico City and Guadalajara. Together with Mexican poet and musician Jose Trujillo she is a co-founder of art-community Les Flâneurs, who are engaged in the synthesis of the arts as a poetry, painting, music, and video art. Les Flâneurs working as an independent editorial of art and poetry books, conducting music shows and live painting performances. From 2021 to 2022, were jointly published books such as ‘ SATORI’ ‘, ‘AMANTES EN CAUTIVERIO ‘, ‘TRAMONTANE ‘. In June 2022 in Guadalajara (Mexico) was held a show presenting HABLAMOS MUERTOS new album ‘Mechanic mushrooms’ accompanied by Anastasiias visual art. Also, as a media artist, Anastasia took part in the HABLAMOS MUERTOS show which was held in Lisbon.
In august 2022 Anastasiia moved to the South of France, where she is living now and painting new collection, inspired by the study of the geometry of bodies. December 1 opened its first virtual exhibition ‘LOVERS IN CAPTIVITY’, consisting of works made in Mexico and France in 2022.