Who Promised It Was Going to Be Alright? We Never Did. Indeed (History Knows No “If”)

For her second solo exhibition at Gunia Nowik Gallery, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska presents a new body of works drawing on Ukrainian mythology, ancestral memory, and the lived experience of war. Reflecting on broken promises, inherited histories, and the fragile space between prophecy and political reality, the exhibition imagines what persists after certainty collapses. Rather than offering an escape from history, Shahmuradova Tanska's paintings turn to myth as a way of confronting violence, carrying memory, imagining forms of care and resistance, and opening space for possibilities that dominant historical narratives cannot contain. 

As the artist writes: "This exhibition begins where promises collapse. Rather than asking What if?, it asks a different question: Who said it was going to be alright? The answer comes from the same voice: We never did. Indeed."