The Kult Talk hosts the exhibition Through Her Eyes, featuring three artists whose work is informed by lived experience and expressed in individual visual languages. The exhibition explores the translation of lived experience: motherhood, play, and the search for inner harmony – into visual language, color, and symbolization in a nuanced exploration of the self in the present day.
Anna Kiparis’ practice unfolds as a self-contained framework where games become a method of seeing. In works such as The Piece, Panopticon, and Carousel (the latter appearing in multiple permutations within the show), she constructs a visual lattice inspired by chess, cards, and cyclical movement. Central to Kiparis’ practice is the recurring presence of the cow: not merely a motif but an interlocutor—participating in the game, yet also observing the proceedings. This dual role mirrors the artist’s interest in how perception operates within rules, spaces, and social symbols. The result is a kinetic body of work that invites strategic engagement and quiet reflection in equal measure.
Tatiana Fetisova contributes a nuanced figurative language described as “balloonized realism.” Her paintings Balancing and Chasing the Air fuse representational accuracy with inflated, almost buoyant forms that act as metaphors for vision and emotion. The inflated elements lend a dreamlike, tactile weight to otherwise recognizable imagery, turning everyday gesture and posture into amplifications of interior states. The viewer encounters a balance between the concrete and the ephemeral, where atmosphere and form carry psychological resonance as much as subject matter.
Olga Bonitas: motherhood at the margins and center. From the Watching Them Grow series, Bonitas presents watercolors such as Tree Adventure, High up above, and Not Just a Tree. Her work emerges from the lived experience of motherhood, articulating the tensions that can accompany creative practice—especially when responsibilities are often situated at the margins of institutional or cultural recognition. Bonitas’ approach is deliberately fragile yet direct, foregrounding the intimate realities of nurturing and growth while asserting the legitimacy and vitality of a mother’s creative voice.
Three visions, one conversation. Together, these artists offer three perspectives on perception and experience—each rooted in personal reality yet resonant with universal questions about how we construct, negotiate, and imagine our own worlds. The exhibition foregrounds the translation of lived experience into visual language, exploring how motherhood, play, and inner harmony are negotiated in the present day. Through Her Eyes invites viewers to consider how personal narratives are reshaped, reframed, and reimagined within contemporary art.
This exhibition is a thoughtful meditation on how private experience becomes public form, and how color, symbol, and gesture can illuminate the inner landscapes we inhabit every day. If you’re in London between March 3 and April 4, Through Her Eyes offers a contemplative window into three distinct, deeply human pathways of making.
Photo credits: Friendly Grounds
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