Tatiana Gorgievski (°1997, Paris) lives and works between Paris and Brussels. She studied at the ENS in Lyon, graduating with a master's degree in philosophy (2020), then at ENSAV La Cambre, where she obtained a master's degree in painting (2024). Currently resident at the Moonens Foundation, her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Paris and Brussels.

Tatiana Gorgievski's painting practice is based on physical contact and unpredictable encounters with matter, from which figures emerge. She works with oil and pure pigments, without any preparatory intention, on canvas and wood panels, letting the painting emerge from this hand-in-hand encounter between the accidents of the paint and the opaque energy of the affect or impulse. This unknown in the process is accompanied by a suspension of the unambiguity of meaning in the painting: the carnal events that are revealed are ambivalent, and the figures are bathed in a troubled and unsettling atmosphere. This breakthrough outside language allows us to touch an opaque evidence, offering not a determined meaning, but a visceral and embodied experience, made of anguish, desire and strangeness.

The themes reveal themselves after the fact, once the painting is finished: violence, childhood, dispossession, sexuality, the relationship with oneself and with others, and mystery are at the heart of the work. This painting is made up of paradoxical coexistences. Firstly, in the way these themes intertwine: devastation sometimes rubs shoulders with gentleness, certain embraces are as much attempts at fusion as they are at tearing away, and genres can become porous. Secondly, in the collusion between the formation of a narrative emerging from the interaction of the figures, and the raw material that tends to re-emerge for itself as formless, through an expressive, lively gesture, sometimes to the point of brutality. Finally, the 1:1 scale of the canvases allows the viewer's body to be drawn into the large formats, or required to stand face-to-face in front of the portraits.

Ultimately, the matrix of Tatiana Gorgievski's pictorial work is to give form to moments that strike us with their excess - of presence, of reality, of affect - underpinning both the impossibility of speaking and the need to show, to give form to this intensity. Nameless beings stare back at us, lost between a disquieting presence and a dissolving solitude; enigmatic, sometimes archaic scenes, where loss, desire and the abyss are side by side; intermingled bodies, with flesh that is acidic and sometimes bruised: her canvases grab us physically, like ‘fleeting, burning sensations that remain under the skin like undeciphered omens’.