Tatiana Karpachova, I Dreamed that I was coming back, 2021

oil, canvas, 87 x 185 cm

The work "I dreamt I was coming back" is part of the painting and photographic series "About Home". The series is about my research into the corporeal memory of architecture, the walls where we grew up. In the painting I depicted a very close friend of mine. We lived together and went through such a difficult period of our immigration together. We were vulnerable and uncertain of our future. At the same time, we were still closely connected to our hometowns in Belarus, which were experiencing very tragic moments in their history at the time.
"I Dreamed I Was Coming Back" tells the story of a dream as a state of detachment from reality, but also of a dream as hope for a future in peace and freedom.
BIOGRAM:
Tatsiana Karpachova was born on October 13, 1991 in Minsk, Belarus. She graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. In 2018 and 2020, Tatsiana was awarded a scholarship from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. She has participated in artist residency programs such as Belarus Month in the United Arab Emirates in 2016. Tatiana Karpachova's work has been exhibited in both EU countries and Belarus until 2020. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture "Gaude Polonia" in 2020 for her project "About Home." Since 2021, Tatsiana has been living and working in Tbilisi. Her works are in the Museum of Drawing in Skopje, Macedonia, an album of works in the Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in private collections in Belarus, Poland, France, the Netherlands and Andorra.