Myself, in the corner, taking shower in front of everyone | Anastasia Antipova
13 Dec 2024 – 31 Jan 2025

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Dates: 13 Dec 2024 – 31 Jan 2025
Artist: Anastasia Antipova
Location: fābula HQ + c1
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April 15, 2025

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Myself, in the corner, taking shower in front of everyone | Anastasia Antipova
13 Dec 2024 – 31 Jan 2025

Myself, in the corner, taking shower in front of everyone
Anastasia Antipova
13.12.24 – 31.01.25

fābula gallery is pleased to present Anastasia Antipova’s personal project “Myself, in the corner, taking shower in front of everyone”.

The space of the former industrial building became an illustration of the author’s multi-layered reflection on issues of personal vulnerability, social anxiety and the desire for protection through privacy. Large canvases, like curtains of a public shower, descend from a height of twenty-five meters. On these curtains, like on the pages of a diary, there are drawings that capture the inner experiences that you can encounter when you are alone with yourself.

A bathroom is a place where a person can find himself in solitude every day. In a world filled with social interactions and information noise, the bathroom becomes an “intimate” space that provides an opportunity to take a short but important break. It becomes a kind of refuge where we can take off our social masks and regain our strength, remaining completely vulnerable to ourselves. This ritual of purification and restoration is symbolic and at the same time extremely intimate.

Shower curtains placed in a huge empty space visualize the idea of “noisy intimacy” – a state where personal states and experiences become accessible to outsiders. A space of intimacy and collective loneliness. Curtains symbolize not only protection, but also demonstration — we look, as if behind the scenes, into someone’s inner world, naked and sincere.

“We have a natural desire for solitude in times of stress and pain. Sometimes you want to disappear, completely separate from yourself for a while in order to cope with your own feelings. Although sometimes it seems that loneliness consumes a person, this state nevertheless helps to bring his or her emotions to the surface, in all their naked, undisguised form. Curtains are a symbol of vulnerability to strangers, dangers and threats that we feel on an emotional level. In the exhibition, curtains create a “safe space”. Being in it, everyone can recognize themselves in the mirror of someone else’s vulnerability and, perhaps, find solace in this recognition of their own fragility” — Anastasia Antipova.