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'Sublimations' is an exhibition of new textile based works by Larysa Bernhardt.
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Opening reception: Saturday Nov 23rd, 6 - 9pm.
This exhibition will run from Nov 24th - Dec 15th and will coincide with Jana Brike's Children Of The Sun, Luke Chueh's 'It Is What It Is', Jeff Gillette's 'Disillusioned and Jale Soysal's 'Red Reflections'.
Larysa Bernhardt has always been fascinated by humanity's ability to recover from life's dramas and express feelings through available mediums—charcoal, paint, thread, poetry, dance. Her work explores the tension between forgetting the experience and retaining the lessons learned.
The trees, plants, animals, and objects in her textile paintings are deeply symbolic to her, yet she welcomes the possibility that viewers will interpret them in their own way. Larysa's goal is for the viewer to engage with her art—and themselves—about what is sacred and what speaks to the soul. Her aim is to create a universal language, akin to cave drawings, developing an "inner geography" where one can always find a way back to feeling safe while keeping life's lessons.
The shape of her textile hangings is inspired by khoruhvy—a banner often depicting a saint, used in Orthodox church processions during major holidays. It symbolises the sacred and divine truth of the heart.
Larysa Bernhardt is Ukraine born a textile artist; she's been sewing for as long as she can remember, and the textile sculptures she creates are shy creatures, naive and nostalgic. They're night dwellers and storytellers. She sources fabrics all over the world, and when they come, sometimes smelling of coffee and spices, sometimes of old books and lavender, well, she knows there's a story.