Daria Irincheeva

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

September 6 – October 11, 2014

Irincheeva’s first solo exhibition at Postmasters of rough, precarious constructions weaves painting, sculpture and installation together. They imply impermanence, flux, entropy, change, adaptation. Just like daytime building and nighttime collapse, failure leads to reconstruction, transformation, and ultimately hope. Formally precise balancing acts, casually put-together with few gestures, Irincheeva’s structures project strength in fragility. Seemingly at the edge of yet another transformation, they appear to withstand destruction like a tree leaning to the wind or a skyscraper that sways in the hurricane yet is left standing.

EMPTY KNOWLEDGE, 2011-2016

Empty Knowledge is an ongoing project that consists of approximately 90 paintings, per series. I use all sides of the canvases (except their backs) to partially recreate books from my childhood, spent in Russia during the Perestroika period of the 1990’s. Each canvas stands for a book that exists in my country house near St. Petersburg, however with selected elements of the actual book’s graphic design omitted as a gesture towards the ‘empty’ aspect of the knowledge contained within. Most of the books I was growing up with contained what at the time had become outdated information from the Soviet era, and were not usable as accurate sources of information after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I further transform this painting project into a sculptural one by placing the canvases as books in stacks, or showing them just as they are, on several bookshelves. As mentioned above, this is an ongoing project that currently exists in 3 individual series of approximately 90 paintings. The 3 individual series are dated 2012, 2014 and 2016 respectively.
Daria Irincheeva.