close your eyes, you have a gift
Irina Drozd (b. 1983) is a Russian contemporary artist. Lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“In my works, I explore the nature of good and evil in a person, an attempt to trace and fix this line between the plus and minus signs is one of the main tasks. In my work, I often refer to the period of childhood as a special state of human life and children as people with flexibility of consciousness and thinking, who do not yet have a clear position in relation to the world around them, easily accepting what comes to them from outside. In this connection, a collective image of an escapist person (even a child) appears, who plays games, deliberately escaping from reality, as if juggling the meanings, roles and statuses that arise around such binary pairs: good - evil, innocence - ¬ passion, quiet - loud, spirit - flesh, prey - predator, desired - real.
The use of contrasting colors in painting is also no coincidence: if a white canvas untouched by paint is a symbol of innocence and spirituality, then red is a symbol of sacrifice and beauty at the same time.
Education
2002-2009 Stieglitz State Art Academy.
2006-2007 Berlin, Art School
1997-2002 Venetsianov Art School, Tver
Personal exhibitions
2020 "Collectors", Museum ART4, Moscow, Russia
2019 Silent Games, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 "Love me as I love you", Museum of Dreams of Z. Freud, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 "When God Was Young" UVG Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 "I don't want to grow old" Art Center Gridchinhall, Moscow, Russia
2015 “I know what you were doing when you were 13”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 "Another Dimension", Erarta Gallery, Zurich
2012 "Another dimension", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 "Beauty Contest", Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
2009 "Tile", Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 "Beef", Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009 "Forward to the past", gallery "Luda", St. Petersburg, Russia