Burotica/The Perfect Kiss

For her very first solo museum exhibition, Chaushova is presenting both existing work and a series of new drawings. In these pastels on dark painted paper, she focuses on the intrinsic meaning of bureaucracy and the everyday objects that can symbolize it. The artist transforms the banality of a penholder, stapler or hole-puncher into ominous symptoms of pigeonholing and mindless administration, by playing with magnification, light and shade, and perspective.

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Valerie Verhack

 

The series of drawings is accompanied by a documentary research on the patents of invention of the objects, as well as information on the context of their production. This part of the work took the form of a publication within the exhibition Burotica at Museum M – Leuven (curated by Valerie Verhack, May-November 2019). Another part of the series of drawings was also presented at the Maison d’art actuel des Chartreux in Brussels (The Perfect Kiss, June-July 2019).