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Pictures from french house in country side made during quarantine 

French lockdown

Maria Seltsova has taken mystical and philosophical references to adapt them to her artistic creations. The artist proposal focuses on translating the pictorial act into a process of healing and meditation. Also, taking elements of tantra, the artist seeks to question the taboos that revolve around sexual pleasure and female masturbation. Her most recent project entitled "Love yourself" is based on the principles of body art and action painting to combine the aforementioned statements.

For the artist to employ her own body as an artistic tool is a form of healing her past memories. Her art despite the intricate abstraction of colors is a confessional art, where the artist deposits part of her history, her body and energy. Maria keeps doing several researches towards the different artistic manifestations that involve corporeality, feminism and forgiveness. 

In the new episode of Seltsova's project “Love Yourself” she was led by the philosophy of Tao where the sexual energy supposes to be transferred into creative energy. Using self-exploration as a tool and going deeper inside her shadow Seltsova apply the power of constructive aggression to fight and then to accept her dark side. Layer by layer she removes the tension of understanding this darkness and  balances herself in all forms through artistic action of self-pleasure and painting. Presence of black and white refers to symbolism of Yin and Yang which according to Tao is not only the meaning of dualism and fight of two opposite forces, but two halves that together complete wholeness. They symbolize two opposing energies, which, mutating and interacting, represent the dynamics of the world.

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Shooting in my photo studio during quarantine. 
Designer Mesnikovich (Barcelona)
Model Darina Gottman

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