Masha Neverova

Masha Neverova
Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel

STATEMENT

I am interested in a border state, ritual, myth, and the problem of identity. I make paintings based on images borrowed from social networks, and those tropes that seem to shine through in modern culture. I take screenshots of images or videos that interest me, and then I combine them into a collage, and then I use these sketches to paint large paintings on paper with acrylic or oil on canvas. I like to observe how myth and ritual are reflected in contemporary life.

I think I was greatly influenced by the esotericism, pseudoscience, and magic that were very popular during the “Perestroika” in my childhood in post-Soviet Russia. That’s why I’m so interested in rituals and I wonder how today’s people interact with them. I do the same in my projects.

BIO

Masha Neverova (b. 1985, Leningrad USSR) Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. She graduated from St. Petersburg Art School and earned her BFA from Russian Pedagogical University in 2011. From 2018-2019 she studied at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art School. 2020-2022 attended a postgraduate art course. Neverova participated in solo and group exhibitions in various galleries in Russia, Lithuania, and Israel. She is working with ritual, trauma, myth, and memory at the same time she uses visual language from technology. She uses painting, graphics, embroidery, objects, clay, and performance. Her work is included in private collections in Russia, Israel, and the USA. Her paintings are characterized by using brown craft paper with a lot of blacks.

ARTIST CONTACT

+97 (254) 333-0491
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www.mashaneverova.com

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