Wallpapers, 2007, wallpaper

Zoya Cherkassky designed patterns for the wallpapers covering three walls in the museum. The simple image tells a story, the only too familiar, almost banal story, taken from the daily newspapers. In her typical graphic style of painting, she creates a stylized pattern of a domestic violence scene, and reintroduces the image back into the crime scene, (which is of course the family home), as a decorative pattern.
Wallpapers follows Cherkassky interest in what can be termed “graphic violence”- stylized images of raw, wild, bleeding violence. With these images she turns the spotlight on the all pervading indifference, our jaded sensitivity to violence, and the unbearable ease with which aesthetics allow the acceptance of any image as a benign harmless aesthetic image, regardless of the contents and meanings it carries.