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Artist Statement:
Armenian-born artist currently
living and working in Warsaw,
Poland. Primarily works in
digital art, photography, and
mixed media.
Urumova’s work deals with the
themes of consumer culture,
repression, sexuality and
death by using images of
childhood as visual metaphors.
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Artist Exhibitions:
UPCOMING: April-May 2008
"sleepwalker kid attack," solo
exhibition, Gallery Pause,
Tokyo, JAPAN
September 2007
"kids:cute:sinister," solo
exhibition, Broadway Gallery,
New York, NY, UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
January-May 2007
APPLE II (traveling
exhibition), Valencia -
Beijing - New York
July 2006
APPLE exhibition, Broadway
Gallery, New York, NY, UNITED
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Artist Galleries:
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Commissions:
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Reviews for Irina Urumova:
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"Irina Urumova has a knack for conveying the liminal in experience and culture; this talent was abundantly evident at a recent exhibition of her work at the Broadway Gallery, her first solo in New York City. This show, aptly titled kids:cute:sinister, offered a portrait of prepubescent desire as a Never Never Land where innocence, violence, and pop imagery perversely intersect. Urumova’s artistic practice is complicit in this exchange, evident in her choice of medium, computer art, her penchant for postmodern pastiche, techniques of appropriation and cartoon figures: references to pop culture, consumerism, fashion, and traditions in comics like Japanese anime are staples and thematic points of departure, but Urumova’s core preoccupation is the unsavory underbelly of desire, the liminal experience as a pop production, and she explores this from the point of view of the problematic conjunction of desire and innocence.
[...]Urumova’s cartoon figures are innocent deviants—think Hello Kitty as a suicide girl or a suicide girl reading Foucault reading Nietzsche. No matter how you slice it, desire is without moral judgment, neither on this side or that side of good and evil, neither transgressive nor co-opted, neither blameworthy nor notable, and, in Urumova’s vision, desire is therefore innocent. Her bemused comic girls do not reflect a loss of innocence, and there is no paradise before the fall. They are instigators and provocateurs; their game is child’s play, and child’s play does not rule out a matter-of-fact cruelty. Desire is subversive precisely because it couldn’t care less. Urumova is gaining recognition as an upcoming artist precisely because she is able to combine different sensibilities, such as that of outsider art and underground subversive comics." - Christine Kennedy, NY Arts Magazine
"Irina Urumova’s sinister pre-pubescent children in self-reflective defiance menaced our perceptions of this time of innocence. However cute these girls may be, you can bet they are headed for reformatory school." - Christine Kennedy, NY Arts Magazine
"Irina Urumova’s white is a stop-n-shop lonely[...]Hers is a carefully constructed world where bar codes and blocked ambitions are the only permanence. And no one and nothing can argue with the shadows. Urumova is telling us something—something about the perils of worrying about our appearance more and ourselves less. Something true which we’d rather not hear." - Rachel Abramovitz, NY Arts Magazine
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