Anastasia LopoukhineBeguiling
Anastasia Lopoukhine works across pen and ink, charcoal drawing and collage. Often drawing from memory, her works depict characters from her childhood, which function as prompts to help her recall the funny, grotesque and strange nature of everyday encounters.
This portrait is of a friend of the artist who grew up in Iraq. As a young girl in the early 2000s, she wasn’t allowed to play outside once she hit puberty. She challenged this by dressing as a boy, her slender figure allowing her to pass between the gender roles. But as she kept switching, her street and home identities began to blur. When her family eventually moved to the US, the question of her sexual identity only deepened, approached from a different, though no less complex, angle. Lopoukhine found her story beguiling and used this drawing to explore the inner duality that many of us carry.
Unframed.
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