I look out the window and see the sea

In spring 2021, the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture announced an open call to find new names in the national art. Veronika Trishina was invited through the selection to participate as an artist in the Ümit programme.
She created her exhibition works based on her travel diary to Aktau. The main narrative of Veronica's solo exhibition was an impulsive desire to immerse a viewer into a winter sea image.
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The exhibition area is a notional sea, which by occasion is the nearest one on the map. Situationist artists have thought in a similar way in the art history, arranging unexpected routes in search of transcendent experiences that blur the boundaries between a dream and reality.
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The journey rich and full o of symbolism can be considered as a diary recording the experience of oceanic feeling. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a two-channel video essay. I Look Out the Window and See the Sea is a continuation and development of a series on nostalgia for phantom memories.
Veronika Trishina resides and works in Almaty. Her practice combines documentary photography, digital collages and film making. Trishina focuses her artistic explorations on the concepts of memory, corporeality, identifying herself with the disturbing image of crashing waves.