Presented by Foxy Production, New York, and Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Olga Chernysheva’s latest solo exhibition “Being Daphne” opened on April 30 in New York.

In Greek mythology, Daphne was transformed into a laurel tree to ward off the advances of Apollo. The title of the exhibition implicitly poses the artist, the viewer, and the works’ protagonists as Daphne, as the subjects of change. Chernysheva presents what Anton Chekhov called “minute particulars,” those detailed observations that point to wider forces that buffer people in their everyday lives. This mode of depiction has been an ongoing strategy of the artist’s work over the decades, where she charts the breakdown of a sense of collectivity. In this exhibition, her subjects can no longer contain their inner lives. They respond with an impulse to commune with nature, or to completely metamorphose. Each scene imbues a realist style with a magical sense of psychic possibility, alluding to the possibility of transcendence even in the bleakest of hours.

The show is on display April 30 - June 18, 2022
Location: Foxy Production, 2 East Broadway, 200, New York, NY 10038