Mother’s Piano (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Dasha Pogodina

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Mother’s Piano belongs to the Madeleine series, where memory emerges through intimate images charged with emotional residue rather than narrative certainty. In this work, the closeness of the two female figures suggests a bond shaped by care, dependence, and silent transmission. Their lowered eyes and restrained gestures create an atmosphere in which tenderness is inseparable from melancholy.
The title shifts the painting beyond portraiture into the realm of recollection. The piano appears here not as a visible object, but as a mnemonic presence — a symbol of maternal inheritance, of memory carried through sound, touch, and repetition. Within the logic of Madeleine, the work reflects on how the most formative bonds remain with us not as fixed stories, but as emotional tonalities that continue to shape inner life.


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

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 90 x 100 x 2cm (unframed) / 90 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits