Alla Polkovnichenko’s exhibition "Cross the Equator"

The exhibition contains works dedicated to the southern hemisphere – the artist’s creative impressions from his travels.

This is both the result of participation in plein air projects and the quintessence of independent wanderings.

Indonesia, Cuba, Morocco are just a small part of the countries that Alla Polkovnichenko saw and depicted.

Indeed, everywhere she has been!

In Indonesia and Cuba - with plein airs of the Bureau of Creative Expeditions.

She went to India with the project “Russian Atlantis”.

In Morocco, Egypt, Turkey - in the off-season, to avoid the crowds of tourists and see the countries in their natural world order.

Alla Polkovnichenko has yet to visit Burma and Kenya, but works depicting vivid images of this country have already been created by the power of her creative imagination: portraits were painted from life in a Moscow workshop, and the background was drawn from materials collected in Russia.

“Wanting something is just as sweet as getting what you want,” is the artist’s approach.

The title of the exhibition sounds like a call and at the same time a demonstration of the author’s desire to overcome the conventional earthly line - the equator.

In Russia, where winter lasts six months a year in most of the country, residents are sorely lacking sun, light, and vitamin D; This is especially clear to a southern person.

Alla Polkovnichenko is from Taganrog; she happily addresses hot topics, discovering new countries and thus warming us, the audience, with southern warmth.