"Detachment" presents a human organ system floating in space. The brain, perched on top of the esophagus, has a face with a look of concentration. Invoking the Qigong practice of visualizing one’s organs smiling, this brain seems able only to manifest his own belabored expression.
Monotypes are an integral part of Sanya Kantarovsky’s artistic practice. Created with Kantarovsky‘s long-time print-making collaborator Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press they lay bare the process of conjuring images, building on the residue of previously painted images on the plate. Functioning as both preliminary ideas and reflections on Kantarovsky‘s paintings, the prints offer a different register of seeing, hinging on the indexical slippage between paper and acrylic glass.