FINE ARTS
Mykolya Churmantaiev – Post-Post-Kontrapost
by Mykolya Churmantaiev
Post-Post-Kontrapost explores a collapsed body — part painting, part sculpture — dissolving into fragments. There’s no action left, only trace. A figure has broken out of a holding space; what remains is absence. Birds surround it — not hostile, just present. Their quiet gaze becomes psychopolitical: always observing, never intervening. The painting hangs low, not for the viewer, but the figure — which is already leaving. The black jacket renders the body heavy, depersonalized. A doorway, echoing Clyfford Still, offers artificial calm. The system rejects exhaustion and apathy, but this work lingers there — in the after. The birds don’t leave. They follow.
