Brink by Dima Filippov

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In Brink, Dima Filippov explores the space in which landscape and abstraction meet, seemingly focusing on a single landscape that is faintly reminiscent of past journeys he has taken and images of places in his home town. Borderlands, unstable spaces and how humans relate to those types of landscape are a source of continued interest for the artist, but his use of drawing as a means of artistic expression is relatively new. As he puts it, ‘For me, drawing was always something casual, something involving sketching, but now I have a much stronger relationship to it. [. . .] Drawing is a starting point that can lead to other art forms and to a different view of art as a whole’. The works in Brink are not based on photographs or preparatory sketches. Filippov’s ‘familiar’ landscapes are an ethereal space with a recognisable horizon that operates as a point of focus to draw in the viewer and encourage meditation on perspective, pattern and colour. Using the medium of drawing to create landscapes depicting elements of his past, he creates an expanse in which we can contemplate our own journeys and find common ground.