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Chechushkova Dasha
This work, part of the etching series in aquatint technique “A Manual Before Confession,” was created in Lviv in 2023.
In this series, I explore and bear witness to the states and phenomena that come to replace the initial shock or horror. I reinterpret the famous etching series Los Caprichos by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, in which the author exposes the “caprices” and “vices” of Spanish society of his time.
A Manual Before Confession is rather about manifestations of weakness or “symptoms of helplessness,” characteristic of myself or my surroundings during this period. This series openly speaks about feelings of confusion, the loss of sensitivity, and the dulling of the instinct for self-preservation — emotions many of us cannot share even with those closest to us, for fear of causing pain or “infecting” them with it.
The title of the series suggests that these feelings are comparable to sins or vices (as in Goya’s work) and call for confession. Here, I also reflect on memory and the nature of remembrance, asking what, in the end, will enter the “temple of memory,” and what must remain forgotten.
Born in 1999 in Odesa, Dasha graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art School in 2018, Department of Painting. She then pursued her studies at the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, initially in the Department of Graphic Arts before transferring to the Faculty of Theory and History of Art from 2019 to 2023.
In her artistic practice, Dasha works with total installations, creating a “situation” that she terms as “co-existence” and “co-event”, using various media, where her diary-notebook appears as the central element.
From 2020 to 2022, she was an active member and co-founder of a creative community at OSRZ-2, an abandoned ship repair factory in Odesa. This period significantly influenced her and developed the artistic theme of situational, fragile art in the context of “co-existence” with another.
