05.07.2021

Tokareva Liza

Liza Tokareva is an award-winning contemporary artist based in Moscow. She has MFA Degree from The Surikov Art Institute in 2015 (the course monumental painting). Also, she got MA Fine Art in The School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”. She is an active participant of many groups and solo exhibitions.

"I try to use personal and collective experience to the sensitive cognition of the world and events taking place at the time of global changes. A person with his or her vulnerability, inspiration, corporeality, changeability are in the center of my attention".
Liza Tokareva

PERSONAL AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021 — Cube.Moscow, “Art for heart”, the charity exhibition
2021 — WINZAVOD, Moscow Center for Contemporary Art, Winzavod.Open “Multiplicity”
2021 — Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, The exhibition “Home sweet home”
2021 — Peschanaya gallery, The Special Program of the 7th Moscow Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art, The exhibition “Family values”
2020 — Online exhibition “#ямогуговорить”
2020 — Sokol Workshop. Personal exhibition “The Event”
2019 — CCIFabrika, The exhibition “Free Off”
2019 — MOMMA, Performance “I am 30 years old”
2019 — MOMMA, Dismorphophobia, or the war within your mind
2019 — WINZAVOD, Moscow Center for Contemporary Art The exhibition of “Communities and Spaces”
2018 — CCIFabrika, The collective project MOMMA the exhibition “Coordinate”
2018 — Flacon Design Factory, the space CUBE, “Monumental Art MMXVIII” The collective exhibition of the monumental 2017 - Tsar tower of Kazan railway station “Pausing contemplation”

ABOUT THE SERIES "TWO IN THE APARTMENT, NOT COUNTING THE DOGS"

This project was conceived and implemented during the period of self-isolation. The main goal of the project was to study feelings, reactions, new experiences and the state of a person inside a closed space at the moment of the World Pause and new reality. The project consists of several canvases, on which the different emotional and sensory state of the author, who is one of the heroes of the paintings, is conveyed. The main characters are a man, a woman, a dog, the death, furniture and a stage. All of them are located on an inverted plane, reminiscent of a stage tilted towards the viewer. This space has no walls, behind the stage there is infinity and abstractness, reminiscent of a kind of thick fog. The characters of the paintings do not have facial features, they are impersonal, immobilized, like puppets, which were seated by the puppeteer. It draws a parallel between reality and theatricality of what is happening. Home is like a stage where life takes place, where a person is now forced to play his role. How does a person feel when he lives in a moment of global changes, world experiments and endless restrictions?