Just as the concept of fusion plays an important role in the themes of their paintings, the visual worlds of the two artists, Oxana Simatova (1979) and Peter Goloshchapov (1982), are inseparably fused in their creative process.

The sculptures created in Peter’s virtual studio, but without physical form, are filtered through Oxana's imagination and become visible on the surface of her canvases. The paintings mostly depict bodies in the process of formation, in an environment where the artificial, the human and the natural coexist.

Powerful, saturated colors, reflective surfaces, baroque formalization, and impenetrable density are the most characteristic features of these images, which employ brilliant painterly solutions. The figures are often recognizable as torsos, while at other times the form acquires a recognizable body in liquid or even droplet-like melting material.

Birth and decay, formation and disappearance, transience and duality are the most characteristic features of these indefinable media, which often evoke underwater worlds with their weightless floating.

In the dialogue between sculptural and painterly qualities, creatures formed by nature and human or man-made figures seem to be moving towards a new, as yet non-existent common quality, where the characteristics of human, natural and mechanical forms of existence merge.

CrocodilePOWER about their art:

For us, Tender Systems is primarily about tenderness — not as an abstract concept, but as a fragile state of connection between human and non-human entities.

The characters in these paintings do not project technological conflicts or speculative visions of the future. Instead, they depict moments of care, vulnerability, and mutual exposure, when bodies lose their stable form so that closeness can emerge.

Nature here functions not as a backdrop, but as an surrounding medium—a soft environment that is both the recipient and witness of these encounters. The Tender Systems exhibition focuses less on machines and more on intimacy, touch, and emotional resonance, i.e., how these relationships can be maintained—and transformed—in posthuman circumstances.

Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1-6 pm; Thursday 1-7 pm; Saturday 10 am-1 pm

Film screening and discussion – selection of CrocodilePOWER videos on February 12 at 7 pm

Registration:  hello@residentart.com

Venue: Resident Art Gallery
1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 39.

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