Nina Kukharets "Costume for a star"
Although the theatrical theme is one of the main ones in the exhibition project, a number of works refer to the cinema. Viewers viewing Nina Kukharets' films may experience parallels with such films as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, which have a thickened noir atmosphere, looking-glass themes, the disintegration of the female personality and theatricality, close to the aesthetics of the camp.
The anthropomorphic characters in the paintings sometimes resemble either mannequins or androids and can cause the viewer to experience the effect of an “uncanny valley” (a hypothesis by robotics scientist Masahiro Mori, implying that an object that looks approximately like a person can inspire disturbing feelings to observers). All this gives viewers the opportunity for a polysemantic interpretation of both individual works and the entire exhibition project as a whole.