Evgenia Makarova is trying to unpack the issues of normality in her work. The artist addresses the influence of emotions on human consciousness and behavior and analyzes the concept of the norm through various media (painting, sculpture, video art) and experiments with materials.
In her work, Makarova emphasizes expressive colours and peculiar choice of materials (fabric, plastic, acrylic and silicone). A variety of colour spots flare up, fade away, and merge with the frozen mass of porous rough plastic. All these tricks are used by the artist to reflect challenging conditions faced by a person: depression, anxiety or rage. As a result, Makarova’s works reveal the aesthetics of the imperfect, wrong and ugly in abnormal.
