Maria Pleshkova: Innerscapes

© Maria Pleshkova, still from video Limbo

About The Exhibition:

Exhibition curator: Roberto Muffoletto

Maria Pleshkova (b. 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, video, performance, and text. 

The VASA exhibition by Moscow based Russian artist Maria Pleshkova presents  three bodies of work: “Afterlove”, “Limbo” and “Days of War: A Pillow Book”. The exhibition presents each collection in three different formats: videos, still images and books.  In doing so she invites us, as readers, to step back and consider a number of presentational elements in relationship to her images and their impact on our reading of her work as iconic and metaphoric.  Simply, the experience of a video, a book and single images demand different actions by the reader, constructs the possibility for different understandings and results in different meanings.    

All three works in this exhibition are stories.  Private stories on lost loves and being alone.  As a collective the work of Maria Pleshkova taps into our emotional shadows through books, images and videos.

© Maria Pleshkovs, Days of War

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA Exhibitions for 11 years has provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.