Nude, Interrupted | Margarita Moreva&Irina Zimina
June 15 – August 27, 2023
This summer presentation brought together works by Margarita Moreva and guest artist Irina Zimina in a bold exploration of nudity, corporeality, and the expressive body. Positioned between figuration and fantasy, the show traversed the boundaries of contemporary nude — with its references to myth, gendered gaze, and layered eroticism.
Margarita Moreva’s painting practice is rooted in figurative traditions but twisted through a contemporary, performative lens. Her bodies are theatrical, masked, hybrid — merging folklore, ornament, and fierce sensuality. In contrast, Irina Zimina’s works on canvas and paper offer another form of intimacy: fluid, stretched, often ghostlike, her figures evoke surreal memories of touch and flesh. Their gestures are distortions, refusals, and echoes — resisting fixed shape or meaning.
As a subtle counterpoint, several pieces from Vladimir Kordiukov’s collection were included, expanding the visual dialogue between gesture, surface, and erotic figuration. His approach to materiality and myth reinforced the show’s central tension: to be seen, to be skinned, to remain unspeakable.
Two online events accompanied the exhibition:
— “On the Other Side of Skin” – an artist talk and live drawing session with Margarita Moreva (July 6, 2023);
— “The Elastic Body” – a lecture-performance by Irina Zimina exploring fragmentation, tactility, and the politics of form (August 10, 2023).
The exhibition preceded Images on White and offered a visceral preview into the gallery’s ongoing interest in bodily narratives and formal experiments.
Press kit available upon request.
