Natasha Lelenco, Large Triptych with After-Dinner & Still Life, Dibond Prints, 2023, Set of 3

This triptych is a multi-panel composition featuring 3 UV prints on dibond aluminum of characters from the Diners series by Moldovan artist Natasha Lelenco (The Mother, the Father and The Grandfather). In this series, comprised of portraits that can function as both individual pieces or assemblages with other characters, Natasha reflects on the role of family and the power dynamics established at a banquet table as a relational space. Originally crafted in acrylic on wood, this 40x120cm reproduction on three dibond aluminum panels has been produced using high-quality direct UV printing on a rigid substrate, framed with a slim wooden strip hand-finished in blue. Each piece is signed and numbered on the back. About this series, the artist herself has written: Between individual desire and collective desire, there is an often invisible battle that leaves behind scars of war and collateral damage wherever it goes. The series sets the stage for this battlefield at a banquet table that could be any: the celebration of a family event, Sunday dinner, a gathering among friends... Any banquet that serves as a pretext to bring to the table (pun intended) how desires, both individual and collective, public and secret, conscious and unconscious, manifest and intersect. The Diners are characters fighting to make being where they are bearable: the chair as a chain, the table as an imposed identity framework. from inhibition to exhibition, from prohibition, inhibition to coercion... The individual and the group, freedom, power, and autonomy, from portrait to still life, to landscape.