WARM AIR MURMUR
October 23 – November 6, 2025
Nordistica Gallery, Internacionih brigada 36, Belgrade, Serbia
Curated by Sasha Kremenets
Featuring: Eugenia Ignatova, Konstantin Gladkov, and Daria Atamanovskaya
October 23 – November 6, 2025
Nordistica Gallery, Internacionih brigada 36, Belgrade, Serbia
Curated by Sasha Kremenets
Featuring: Eugenia Ignatova, Konstantin Gladkov, and Daria Atamanovskaya
The warmth that lingers after we leave
Warm air murmur is a collective reflection on the residue of warmth, the echo of intimacy carried through light, bodies, and cities. This exhibition brings together three artists shaped by the post-Soviet landscape, its fragile memories, emotional turbulence, and silent yearning for connection in an increasingly detached world.
Through photography, video, and mixed-media works, Eugenia Ignatova, Daria Atamanovskaya, and Konstantin Gladkov (Kungfuct) explore how tenderness survives amid urban coldness, how identity takes shape between nostalgia and transformation, and how the young generation learns to exist within the ruins of both personal and historical transitions.
Warm air murmur is a collective reflection on the residue of warmth, the echo of intimacy carried through light, bodies, and cities. This exhibition brings together three artists shaped by the post-Soviet landscape, its fragile memories, emotional turbulence, and silent yearning for connection in an increasingly detached world.
Through photography, video, and mixed-media works, Eugenia Ignatova, Daria Atamanovskaya, and Konstantin Gladkov (Kungfuct) explore how tenderness survives amid urban coldness, how identity takes shape between nostalgia and transformation, and how the young generation learns to exist within the ruins of both personal and historical transitions.
Daria Atamanovskaya
A generation suspended between warmth and collapse
Emerging from different corners of the former Soviet space, these artists share not just geography, but a psychological terrain — one marked by inherited trauma, collective fatigue, and the constant negotiation between survival and sensitivity.
Their works speak of a post-Soviet youth that feels everything too deeply yet struggles to find stability in a world that demands resilience. It is a generation growing up with the ruins of ideologies, facing precarity, digital alienation, and the erosion of intimacy, yet still searching for beauty and connection in the smallest gestures.
Warm air murmur captures that moment of trembling presence, when emotion becomes architecture, when light touches the skin, when the memory of warmth remains even after the person has gone.
Emerging from different corners of the former Soviet space, these artists share not just geography, but a psychological terrain — one marked by inherited trauma, collective fatigue, and the constant negotiation between survival and sensitivity.
Their works speak of a post-Soviet youth that feels everything too deeply yet struggles to find stability in a world that demands resilience. It is a generation growing up with the ruins of ideologies, facing precarity, digital alienation, and the erosion of intimacy, yet still searching for beauty and connection in the smallest gestures.
Warm air murmur captures that moment of trembling presence, when emotion becomes architecture, when light touches the skin, when the memory of warmth remains even after the person has gone.
The works
Eugenia Ignatova constructs an archive of her own «beautiful» — a kaleidoscopic collection of people, objects, and fleeting details that together assemble the foundation of self. Through photography she traces how identity crystallizes from what we hold dear: the ordinary charged with emotion, the familiar turned into form. Her work becomes both a catalogue and a mirror, an attempt to name and preserve the elements from which she is made.
Daria Atamanovskaya brings a performative and feminist perspective. Her photographs and videos reimagine post-Soviet femininity and youth through intimate, cinematic gestures. The young women in her work appear both fragile and defiant, suspended between euphoria and melancholy, a mirror to the emotional volatility of our times.
Konstantin Gladkov (Kungfuct) expands the dialogue into the city’s geometry, its emptiness, its metaphysical temperature. His work captures the pulse of modern urban life, where concrete and glass become emotional conductors, echoing the human need for connection amidst isolation.
Eugenia Ignatova constructs an archive of her own «beautiful» — a kaleidoscopic collection of people, objects, and fleeting details that together assemble the foundation of self. Through photography she traces how identity crystallizes from what we hold dear: the ordinary charged with emotion, the familiar turned into form. Her work becomes both a catalogue and a mirror, an attempt to name and preserve the elements from which she is made.
Daria Atamanovskaya brings a performative and feminist perspective. Her photographs and videos reimagine post-Soviet femininity and youth through intimate, cinematic gestures. The young women in her work appear both fragile and defiant, suspended between euphoria and melancholy, a mirror to the emotional volatility of our times.
Konstantin Gladkov (Kungfuct) expands the dialogue into the city’s geometry, its emptiness, its metaphysical temperature. His work captures the pulse of modern urban life, where concrete and glass become emotional conductors, echoing the human need for connection amidst isolation.
The curatorial vision
Curated by Sasha Kremenets, the exhibition forms a living, breathing organism, a sensory field where warmth, distance, and memory collide. It asks how emotion survives when the social and political landscape grows colder, and how the air, the body, and the city continue to remember.
Curated by Sasha Kremenets, the exhibition forms a living, breathing organism, a sensory field where warmth, distance, and memory collide. It asks how emotion survives when the social and political landscape grows colder, and how the air, the body, and the city continue to remember.
Exhibition details:
October 23 – November 6, 2025
Nordistica Gallery, Internacionih brigada 36, Belgrade, Serbia
Opening: October 23, 19:00
Press contact: nordisticagallery@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordistica/
October 23 – November 6, 2025
Nordistica Gallery, Internacionih brigada 36, Belgrade, Serbia
Opening: October 23, 19:00
Press contact: nordisticagallery@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordistica/
