Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM to Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
DMST Atelier, Los Angeles
DMST Atelier is pleased to present Shapes of Imposition, a two-artist exhibition featuring the paintings and sculptures of Kim Farbota and Svetlana Shigroff. In conversation, these works explore the body as both a vessel of projection and conduit of interiority. In Kim’s work, crude oil fed into raw canvas spreads and creeps along the cotton fibers over months. The seepage resolves into female figures, hunched and absorbed in elongated moments of modern suspension. These unstable bodies operate as infrastructure, sites through which digitally networked perception, affect, and (mis)information circulate. As the oil wicks and migrates, postures and expressions shift. The overlapping forms bleed into one another in a process of mutual reshaping. Svetlana’s sculptures act as psychic catches, absorbing the viewer’s lusts, assumptions, and derisions. Domestic ready-made fragments are fused with intimate artifacts of hair, teeth and likeness - then poked, preened, twisted and assembled, embalmed and adorned into dysmorphic female forms. The reanimation of these objects into abject sculptures implicates the traditional feminine, upheld by our consumptive culture. What emerges is not nostalgia, but a myth still operative—quietly structuring how the feminine is consumed and contained. Both artists use material rumination to explore how external impositions form and deform the body-object. Crude oil and hair act as containers of time, one ecological the other human. Where Kim’s figures behave as porous scaffolding for networked psyches, Svetlana’s sculptures act as violent yet vulnerable containers of interiority. In charged adjacency, their works consider the contemporary feminized body as a site shaped by technological mediation, cultural projection and deeper inheritance.