Seeping through the Deserted Expanse

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

In her new series of digital paintings created specifically for NFT, mystical symbols are transformed into abstract forms, leaving traces akin to scratches on a screen. The multilayered imagery created by Tagantzeva-Kobzeva, which resembles more and more tabs being opened in a browser, removes the possibility of linear reading. In this series the artist turns to the blue glow of screens that brings out the outlines of ancient archaic ornaments. She explores how, given the accelerating digitalisation of society, the very logic of writing is changing, and turns to the study of ancient languages such as runic, cuneiform, and Nabatean; trying to reveal the processes which made us perceive once intuitively formed languages as abstraction.