Original artwork description:

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The painting "Knitted Pink Sweater" from the MADELEINE series is a visual embodiment of memory through touch, warmth, and texture. It places special emphasis on the role of material objects as carriers of emotional significance: the knitted sweater becomes more than just a piece of clothing—it is a physical and symbolic conduit of protection and love.
This work explores how the touch of a familiar fabric can trigger a wave of memories, returning one to a state where someone dear is present. What matters here is not only the image but also the bodily memory—the memory of skin, gestures, and embraces. The painting speaks to the way closeness is experienced through tactile sensations, and how an ordinary object—a sweater with its rhythmic knit—can become a container of warmth, trust, and inner stability.
This piece is not about the past as loss, but the past as support. It captures a moment of silent contact—a state in which words are no longer needed because a deep emotional connection exists between two people.
"Knitted Pink Sweater" is an image of bodily memory, where matter absorbs emotion, and memories return not through the mind, but through the feeling of comfort, care, and touch that remain with us forever.


Madeleine series
In the Madeleine series, Daria Pogodina turns to the phenomenon of involuntary memory, known in psychology and culture as the “Proust effect.” The artist explores how ordinary objects and sensory impressions from the past are transformed into emotional anchors—inner pillars of the self.
The objects and images chosen by the author—such as a mother’s sweater, childhood food, or the voice of a television announcer—become points of access to the unconscious resources of the psyche, places of comfort and stabilization. Without falling into nostalgic idealization, Pogodina captures the subtle mechanism of interaction between the conscious and the unconscious, where the mundane becomes sacred, and seemingly banal details acquire profound meaning.
These works are not about escaping the present into the past, but about seeking inner light and strength in both personal and collective experience—a testament to the human ability to find resilience in the everyday during times of crisis.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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