In 2023, the painter Tatyana Kazakova lost her son. He was 32 years old. Devastation drove her to perform acts of unflinching honesty. Her “Grief” series — filled with small portraits of mothers and children, whitespace cut out of bodies, handprints and arched backs, splayed fingers and empty palms, and the body language of mourning, desperate entreaties, and hopes for rebirth — is an unsparing representation of what it feels like to forever lose a loved one.
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