Ekaterina Gerasimenko takes the audience on a magical yet unsettling journey constructed around memory and place in the exhibition Shady Backstage.

The artist conceptualizes the voids in memory as playful spaces, creating a kind of mental collage by merging fragmented moments that cannot be fully recalled with everyday objects.

By reimagining desolate spaces such as parking lots, ponds, dark streets, and abandoned gardens, and placing objects like soccer tables, various toys, garden sculptures, and torn posters, she reconstructs these spaces to alter the memory and the image it preserves. In doing so, she builds a different visual narrative, offering an illusory pseudo-reality where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, leaving the start of one and the end of the other ambiguous. (Güneş Salı)