Anastasia AHRENICH (b. 2000), Kitsune, 2023

oil, canvas, 90 x 60 cm, signed on the back

Painter, illustrator and ceramicist of Belarusian origin, living in Warsaw. Student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studio of painter Stanislaw Baj. Student at the Akademie der Bildendenden Künste München in the studio of Karin Kneffel. A pupil of Poznan painter Ventzi Pirijankov.
Her artistic work is centered around the psychology of cognition and the perception of the real world through her own experiences and memories. Perception of the everyday world through thoughts and dreams that weave a web of obvious reality. It mixes with dreams and experiences that we experience every day into a characteristic surrealism. The works are inspired by hidden fears in human memory, often symbolized through objects close to everyone in everyday life. The mysterious aura with the help of animals takes us to the "other" reality. The play of colors and figures bind into a small intimate world placed on the canvas, and the forms seem to be trapped in the ceramics, as if trying to free themselves from these shackles.