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Limonov Art Foundation

LAF (Limonov Art Foundation) is a non-profit, non-governmental foundation for the support and development of contemporary Russian art. The Foundation works with independent artists and curators, providing the opportunity to realize the largest and most daring artistic ideas. The goal of the foundation is to promote contemporary Russian art at the national and international level by building competent mutual exchange and cooperation with various galleries, museums, self-organizations, and interdisciplinary platforms. The Foundation presents exhibitions based on works from its collection, organizes special projects by iconic authors of the Russian art scene and discovers new young names.


At Cosmoscow 2024, the LAF Foundation presents a mono-project of graphic works by Masha Sha, created recently. Sha is a poet of ephemeral, semi-abstract graphics. As a basis for her works, she prefers the thinnest, weightless tracing paper, white or slightly yellowed, on top of which she boldly applies expressive, bold strokes with graphite or colored pencils. She is interested in drawing an unfinished transformation, oscillating between understatement and completeness. These could be words produced in track settings, or snippets of phrases seen on the pages of books or billboards. Or randomly captured sensory images, balancing between abstraction and figurative, with a fluid connection of interpenetrating structures. For a special pavilion at the fair, Masha prepared a new series of works, with flashing absurdist stanzas of the poetry of Khlebnikov and Kharms, dematerializing the image, dissolving it in the elements of color and light.