This exhibition is dedicated to painting and to women, to the pleasure and the pain that our work often brings us. Apart from the struggle of female artists for recognition still ongoing in many parts of the world, this show celebrates the women who have been able to make the invisible visible, who have taken the time to care for their medium, accepting the joy and struggle that make part of any caregiving. Both Olesia and Mika have their own non-linear relationships with painting. Their practices prioritize effort over expressive gesture; attempting and sometimes failing over moving straightforwardly to a set goal. Mika, who started out as an animation artist, came to contemporary art through performance, and feminist theory, and only then moved on to painting, which she now explores from a variety of standpoints. Olesia, on the contrary, started with painting, but her later work with objects and installation transformed her idea of painting, erasing the boundary between painting and the object.