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With a wink and a smirk, Drying Canvases pokes fun at the grand narratives of painting. Evoking a laundry line hung with oversized, cartoonish shapes, the work reimagines the artist’s studio as both a domestic and performative space. The exaggerated cut-outs — loosely inspired by the making of Ukrainian _varenyky_ — become stand-ins for simplified brushstrokes or abandoned canvases, stripped of depth, gesture, and solemnity.

By mimicking the texture of wood on real wooden structures and playfully flattening a “shadow” across the wall and floor, the installation deliberately confuses materiality, perspective, and expectation. Here, the heroic gesture of painting is deconstructed and laid bare—hung out to dry, quite literally.

Infused with satire, Drying Canvases engages with the legacy of modernist abstraction, while simultaneously deflating its seriousness. Through bold colour, exaggerated form, and theatrical scale, the work invites us to laugh at the reverence of art history, and to consider what painting becomes when it stops trying to be important.

**_Installation view: Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Ahoy_**

Photos: Tommy Smits

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Drying Canvases

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I tried to play tic tac toe with the space and I lost.


**_Part of a two week residency at Kieken Centrale, Antwerp, Belgium._**

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Visual artist Karina Puuffin steps away from her practice and offers children the opportunity to take over her place.

The show **"My child could make that"** humorously reflects on the frequently used phrase, which often serves a purpose to express a sense of scepticism and confusion regarding the artistic value or complexity of the work. By asking kids to have fun in the presentation space, Puuffin is aiming to redefine the traditional notions of art display and poke fun at the pretentiousness of the art world. The exhibition invites viewers to engage with the surroundings through a lens of curiosity and open-mindedness, emphasising the importance of embracing childlike wonder, creativity, and joy in our encounters with art. It challenges the conventional hierarchy of artistic merit and encourages people to reexamine their preconceptions about what constitutes “good” art, showing that _childlikeness_ in art is not at all a bad quality.





_Photo: Natalia Balanina_

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My Child Could Make That

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“Are you still there?” is a bittersweet, nostalgic and naive reincarnation of the artist's childhood drawing that she used to make together with her grandmother, who currently lives under Russian occupation. As there is no internet and often no electricity in her hometown, the only means of communication are telephone calls and short conversations, the phrases from which were taken and hidden on the walls of the room. The exhibition uses lively and playful language to talk about reminiscence, the feeling of a lack of something that you can not really grasp and a sense of longing for the past and acknowledgment of the present.


Are you still there?

Drying Canvases

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My Child Could Make That

Are you still there?

«Good Painting»

Example I: Blend

Zomerexpositie

Untitled

Холст IIХолст II. "This feels like a Living Room"

Square painting

Холст I

Untitled (2020)

Variation 1

Red & Green

Work