Gallery Portal 11 presents “Archipiélago” personal exhibition of Aglaya Nogina. 15.06.2024-30.06.2024.
An archipelago is a group of islands that lie at a short distance from each other and unite into one whole.
Aglaya Nogina about the project: “In the last year and a half, I found myself far from my close friends, with whom I used to spend a lot of time.
This project is dedicated to female friendship, femininity, female strength and beauty. I work at the intersection of my own author’s texts and the xerolitograpy letterpress printing technique, experimenting with the results and not having any internal limitations regarding the final appearance of this project.
Female friendship for me is something exceptional and very energetic. It is next to women whom I consider close to me in spirit that strength appears and resources are restored. With these words, I in no way belittle the role and importance of men in a woman’s life, but as George Santayana said: “The loneliest woman in the universe is not the one who does not have a husband, but the one who does not have a best girlfriend.”
Anna Petrova (curator) about the project: “Aglaya Nogina uses the metaphor of the archipelago to describe the essence of the connection between her and her close friends. Over the past 2 years, the war (full scale invasion), like tectonic movements, separated them and scattered them to different parts of the world, but the inner unity of the friends remained intact. A series of large-format portraits – reflections on femininity, female strength, inner and outer beauty and the power of friendship.”
Aglaya Noghina is a Ukrainian artist born in 1996 in Luhansk. She spent her childhood with her grandparents, and at the age of 11 she moved to live with her parents in Kharkiv. From 2012 to 2016, Aglaya studied at the Kharkiv Art School (currently Kharkiv Professional Higher Art College) at the scenography department. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Department of Graphic Arts. In 2022, after the start of a full-scale invasion, she became a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Dusseldorf Academy of Arts) in the Freien Künste (Liberal Arts) department, Rita McBride’s class.
Aglaya Nogina’s art is sensual, sincere, concise. In recent projects, she has worked with the concept of home (“Uprooted” project), the properties of human memory and the sense of nostalgia (“Melancholia” series) and earth studies (“Terra. Memoria mundi” project).
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