For Anastasia Saut motherhood became not only a turning point in her life, but also a profound entry into a new artistic reality. The shift in rhythm, embodiment, perception of time, and the surrounding world awakened a need to speak in a language previously unfamiliar to her, the language of abstraction. This gave rise to the first series Gift of Motherhood, marking the beginning of a new chapter in her painting.

Submarine brings together, for the first time in a single space, works created over more than a decade, from the watercolour Clean Floor, painted in a moment of unconscious anticipation of motherhood, to the meditative video piece Reflection, born in a time of deep vulnerability and isolation.

Anastasia Saut's works do not narrate, they convey states of being. The diptychs Open Book - Closed Book, Inhale - Exhale, and the painterly compositions Free Minutes and Clean Floor serve as direct documentations of sensation, emotions emerging from the artist's new bodily and social role. Within them, we sense a necessary adaptability, a balance between dissolution and preservation of the self, a moment of stillness between crying and laughter, a breath taken underwater.

The series Imprints, created amidst the exhaustion of early motherhood, documents life through the traces of children's objects: jars, toys, stacking rings. These are not only artistic gestures, but also attempts to hold onto fleeting moments before they vanish into the repetition of everyday life.

Anastasia Saut's painting is organically woven into the multimedia installation — a visual diary of transformation. Her abstractions are not detached or cerebral; on the contrary, they are visceral, emotional, and saturated with sensations that resist literal expression.

Submarine is an exhibition about motherhood - about another reality, another depth.
It is an exploration of how personal experience becomes artistic method, and how vulnerability transforms into creative force.

Sasha Kremenets, curator