DARIA MAKAROVA         







PASTORAL


2024
site-specific installation, premium permanent glass decorative Oracal, text in English and German,
size may vary






A poetic text, primarily in English, is altered through the mixing of Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
It’s attached in semi-transparent Oracal-foil to two large windows of the Leo Schwarz Foyer in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, overlooking the park
and the Stalinist architecture on the Roßplatz. The text is a personal artistic monologue about the mother tongue, music, contemporary politics,
and reinvention of own identity in the midst of the ongoing war that Russia has been waging in Ukraine for many years.
Despite the fact that the artist writes a lot about the Russian language, the language itself is physically absent.