Join me for the opening of my solo exhibition, “Afterland”
Saturday, October 25 | 6:00–8:00 pm
IMUR Gallery | 67 Greene St., Jersey City, NJ.
I’d love to see you there!
Afterland
In Afterland, Tatyana Kazakova envisions a quiet realm where life dissolves back into the land — only to rise again, changed.
Her black-and-white drawings of gardens and distant landscapes reach beyond their frames, suggesting roots that seek new soil, memories that refuse to vanish. Her blue-and-white paintings, like porcelain relics, hold the delicate traces of what was and what might be. And then, suddenly, there is a bright yellow — striking, alive — breaking through the stillness. In its light, reflections ripple across water, signifying that life is moving on.
Here, death is not an ending but a soft return — a slow folding into earth and air, where the past becomes fertile ground for unseen blooms. Kazakova’s work offers a contemplation on cycles of memory, loss, and renewal — a tender map of the way we scatter, settle, and begin again.
Where ink and white remember loss,
a garden grows through broken gloss.
Death folds softly into land—
not an end, but a place to stand.
Here, memory seeds the silent ground,
and what is gone is still around, and around...”
-Ivy Huang (Curator)
