Facets of Identity: Form, Texture, and Meaning

The Valentin Yudashkin Fashion House has always drawn inspiration from art, turning couture collections into canvases. Today, its historic space on Kutuzovsky Prospekt opens new horizons where the boundaries between fashion and painting dissolve.

Facets of Identity: Form, Texture, and Meaning considers identity as a living structure in which memory, body, role, and the inner sense of self remain in constant dialogue.

Created with the support of CULTURE Gallery and WODA Gallery, the exhibition explores transformation and subjective wholeness. Works by Yulia Bas, Natalia Tarantsova, and Liliya Kovgan enter into a conversation about the multiplicity of identity and ways of preserving an inner core.

Yulia Bas's figurative work I AM REAL embodies the tension and hope that emerge when real, digital, and imagined identities coexist. Its vulnerable, fragmented human figure remains in a continuous process of renewal and reaches toward antifragility.

Natalia Tarantsova's abstract works from the Numbers series enter into dialogue with it. Textured paste, acrylic, and varnish on wood dissolve the limits of realistic depiction, inviting each viewer to find personal resonance in every fragment, color, and form.

Tarantsova's surfaces operate as spaces of focused looking: the number ceases to be a sign and becomes relief, while color and texture move a rational system into the realm of sensation.

Liliya Kovgan's works unfold another dimension governed by dream logic. Figure and space appear lit from within, while the heroines' own radiance becomes the environment of a parallel reality, pure energy displacing familiar matter.

Together, the works form a deep emotional space and underline a new YUDASHKIN philosophy: purity of line, freedom from visual excess, and deliberate restraint.