dandelion wine
who?
authors:
Anna Lapshinova
Natalia Chobanyan
Dasha Surma
Mila Anuchina
Anastasia Samsonova
Kirill Loginov
Alexandra Azovtseva-Sycheva
Christina (Arark) Manucharyan
Ekaterina Zabelina
Alina Bugleeva

Curator:
Tatiana Vinokurova
photographer:
Nikita Teplitsky
where?
Craftnotes gallery
Moscow, Plotnikov Lane 2/8
when?
18.02.2026 - 23.04.2026
what?
An exhibition inspired by the touching spirit of the novel «Dandelion Wine».
A reflective project and ode to the fragile, fleeting moments that make up our life. The works on that exhibition are united by a common goal: to hold on to what is inherently transient.

The works in the exhibition are intended to create an atmosphere of sincerity and presence. The artists seem to act as summer winemakers: they capture and fix the valuable moments. They capture the carefree light that we carry within ourselves and learn not to extinguish. They represent great hopes, growing up, and accepting our true selves.

There are almost no direct quotes here, only hints, half-tones, and a play of shapes.

Childhood lives within us not through stories, but through sensations. Blurred images where the color has faded in the sun and the details have dissolved, leaving only warmth. Sometimes the images fade, sometimes déjà vu returns, that same feeling that it's happened before, but where: in a dream, in a fantasy, or in real life?

Because the most important skill we so often lose in the hustle and bustle of adulthood is the art of living here and now. Notice the little things. Feel the present. Remain a little like a child, even when going through the challenges of experience.

The exhibition "Dandelion Wine" is about connecting with this present. About preserving the inner light. It offers no grand truths, only a reminder: wisdom lies in the very fabric of lived moments, in their absolute and fragile uniqueness.

there are random silhouettes, objects, fragments of the landscape picked out from the stream. Freeze-frames that allow you to slow down and feel the life around you. The works are like a materialized visual whisper, inviting the viewer to co-creation and their own recollection. Each one becomes a vessel, a mirror, or a window into your own summer, into childhood, into that very "now."
there are delicate, almost ephemeral images, a subtle and careful work with memory, an appeal to the internal archive and everyday life in this exhibition.