The Rose, 2023

Lyudmila Baronina is an artist who creates in the surrealist genre. She likes to surprise the audience with vivid and catchy images. The artwork Rose creates an impression of a schoolchild's fantasy, dozing off in a biology class after a good lunch. The spring sun, stuffiness of the classroom and the teacher’s monotonous voice are about to put you to sleep. The lecture, textbook illustrations and fantasy characters from computer games are woven into a bizarre plot. Pretty soon the lesson will be over, the bell and the noise of classmates will wake up the dreamer. The brightly colored roses and barbed wire will dissolve. The fantasy character will lose his thorns and greenish hue, and turn back into the biology teacher.