Poetic beauty

Djina Chemtov’s paintings are infused with a strange, profoundly poetic beauty. They focus on the gaze, the gaze of a woman with a slender face and a pensive countenance.

Art is a lonely

Art is a lonely voyage, like thought. This is what occurs to the traveler who happens upon a room filled with Djina Chemtov's works. One is mindful of the solitude of the artist's enterprise - the solitude of the gaze lost in thought, and of windows. The painting as a window, a window into a window.

Your gaze

Your eyes look beyond me to a primal splendor and shine eternity back to me darkly. Your eyes are fulgent night-blue secrets that open like a wish.

Window

It is sometimes said that the best paintings are those that constitute a discourse on themselves; that the most eloquent painting is the painting that carries within itself, intrinsically, the trace of its own history – of its past and its becoming.

Dream Horizon

Reflecting on Djina Chemtov’s paintings, I feel like they require a special introduction, some sort of initiation. Both literally and figuratively. As if permission was needed before entering the artist‘s intimate world -only meant for a few, and move into an intermediate space similar to a vestibule from which her so personal