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Installation view
Arina Sukhankina, Puppy resurrection, 2023, cotton fabrics, pencil, acrylic paint, 1430 × 1110 mm
Arina Sukhankina, Puppy resurrection (detail), 2023, cotton fabrics, pencil, acrylic paint, 1430 × 1110 mm
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Installation view
Arina Sukhankina, Keys and beads, 2022, pencil on paper, 114 × 114 mm
Arina Sukhankina, Untitled, 2023, pencil on paper, 114 × 114 mm
Arina Sukhankina, Untitled, 2023, pencil on paper, 114 × 114 mm
Installation view
Arina Sukhankina, Untitled, 2023, digital print on paper, watercolour, pencil, 207 × 179 mm
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Installation view
Arina Sukhankina, Feathers and Feathers 2, both 2022, pencil on paper, 125 × 205 mm
Arina Sukhankina, Feathers, 2022, pencil on paper, 125 × 205 mm
Arina Sukhankina, Feathers 2, 2022, pencil on paper, 125 × 205 mm
Installation view
Arina Sukhankina, Puppy resurrection (detail), 2023, cotton fabrics, pencil, acrylic paint, 1430 × 1110 mm
Installation view
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Fortune and the Boy
Beside a well, uncurb’d and deep,
A schoolboy laid him down to sleep:
(Such rogues can do so anywhere.)
If some kind man had seen him there,
He would have leap’d as if distracted;
But Fortune much more wisely acted;
For, passing by, she softly waked the child,
Thus whispering in accents mild:
‘I save your life, my little dear,
And beg you not to venture here
Again, for had you fallen in,
I should have had to bear the sin;
But I demand, in reason’s name,
If for your rashness I’m to blame?’
With this the goddess went her way.
I like her logic, I must say.
There takes place nothing on this planet,
But Fortune ends, whoe’er began it.
In all adventures good or ill,
We look to her to foot the bill.
Has one a stupid, empty pate,
That serves him never till too late,
He clears himself by blaming Fate!
— Jean de La Fontaine
