Citizen Brooklyn

CC BY 2.0 Margaret Badore. Painting on floppy disks by Nick Gentry.

The C24 Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood is currently exhibiting a group show that features work made with obsolete objects. Used agenda books, old technical books and floppy disks become canvases for new work.

Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova assembles books that she finds discarded or in thrift stores. She mounts them to a board open-faced, then overlays the pages with ink and watercolor paintings.

Photo © Ekaterina Panikanova, ink on books. Photo courtesy of C24 Gallery.

Panikanova paints images that seem nostalgic for childhood: glimpses of old-fashioned dress, cakes, toy horses. The old books with slightly yellowing pages also reference the past. Yet the work also says something about the nature of memory: fragmented, with parts blacked out and muddied by running ink.

Multimedia work by Ekaterina Panikanova. Photo by Margaret Badore/CC BY 2.0

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