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Maria Seltsova
Viewing room
Maria Seltsova (Ulyanovsk ,1986)
The artist's proposal focuses on translating the pictorial act into a process of healing and meditation. Also, taking elements of tantra, the artist seeks to question the taboos that revolve around sexual pleasure and female masturbation. Her main project entitled "Love yourself" is based on the principles of body art and action painting to combine the aforementioned statements.
For the artist to employ her own body as an artistic tool is a form of healing her past memories. Her art despite the intricate abstraction of colors is a confessional art, where the artist deposits part of her history, her body, and energy. Maria keeps doing several types of researches towards the different artistic manifestations that involve corporeality, feminism, and forgiveness.
*Written by an independent curator Cristina Sandoval*
The artist's proposal focuses on translating the pictorial act into a process of healing and meditation. Also, taking elements of tantra, the artist seeks to question the taboos that revolve around sexual pleasure and female masturbation. Her main project entitled "Love yourself" is based on the principles of body art and action painting to combine the aforementioned statements.
For the artist to employ her own body as an artistic tool is a form of healing her past memories. Her art despite the intricate abstraction of colors is a confessional art, where the artist deposits part of her history, her body, and energy. Maria keeps doing several types of researches towards the different artistic manifestations that involve corporeality, feminism, and forgiveness.
*Written by an independent curator Cristina Sandoval*
"Love Yourself" Project
White, 2017
Acrylic on canvas, 140x140 cm (stretched)
Red, 2017
Acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm (not stretched)
€ 5,000
Blue, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 150x140 cm (not stretched)
SOLD
Green, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 140x140 cm (stretched)
€ 5,000
Yellow, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 140x140 cm (stretched)
SOLD
Golden-Green, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 40x40 cm (stretched)
€ 700
Black, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 30x30cm (stretched)
€ 20,000
Sex with Russian, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 250x150cm (not stretched)
"Love Yourself" Episode #3
Video and photo credit: Tonya Polskaya
In the new episode of Seltsova's project "Love Yourself" she was led by the philosophy of Tao where the sexual energy supposed to be transferred into creative energy. Using self-exploration as a tool and going deeper inside her shadow Seltsova apply the power of constructive aggression to fight and then to accept her dark side. Layer by layer she removes the tension of understanding this darkness and balances herself in all forms through artistic action of self-pleasure and painting. The presence of black and white refers to the symbolism of Yin and Yang which according to Tao is not only the meaning of dualism and fight of two opposite forces but two halves that together complete wholeness. They symbolize two opposing energies, which, mutating and interacting, represent the dynamics of the world.
Video and photo credit: Tonya Polskaya
In the new episode of Seltsova's project "Love Yourself" she was led by the philosophy of Tao where the sexual energy supposed to be transferred into creative energy. Using self-exploration as a tool and going deeper inside her shadow Seltsova apply the power of constructive aggression to fight and then to accept her dark side. Layer by layer she removes the tension of understanding this darkness and balances herself in all forms through artistic action of self-pleasure and painting. The presence of black and white refers to the symbolism of Yin and Yang which according to Tao is not only the meaning of dualism and fight of two opposite forces but two halves that together complete wholeness. They symbolize two opposing energies, which, mutating and interacting, represent the dynamics of the world.
"Love Yourself" Project
€ 12,000
Constructive Aggression, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm (not stretched)
€ 10,000
Finding the Light, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm (not stretched)
€ 10,000
Balancing, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm (not stretched)
€ 10,000
Acceptance, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm (not stretched)