The Rapture is the first solo exhibition by one of the most distinctive Ukrainian artists of her youngest generation, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska (born 1996, Odessa).

In her paintings, Shahmuradova Tanska uses the theme of intergenerational trauma and motifs from dreams as tools for communicating with her ancestors. Using materials such as wood, jute, canvas and oil paints, the artist's distinctive visual language, based on fluid, organic lines and luminous colours, evokes dreamlike, mythical landscapes in which figures merge with their surroundings. Drawing on her personal history and responding to the current situation in Ukraine, her works become vehicles for both individual and collective experience, highlighting the violence and atrocities committed against Ukraine by the aggressor state, Russia.

The Rapture exhibition consists of two chapters. The exhibition at the Alfa Gallery features a newly created painting installation consisting of 12 individual works that explore the fluidity of identity, the deep bonds between people and the earth, and the resilience of the human spirit. The characters created by Shahmuradova Tanska are in a state of constant transformation and ecstasy, permeating time and space to reflect a shared experience shaped by sensitivity and strength. The immersive, panoramic frieze invites viewers into a world where memory, myth and experience intertwine, offering a poetic reflection on belonging, uprootedness and survival. The Rapture frieze gently blends into the museum's interior architecture, establishing an almost mystical connection with the nature of the nearby garden.

The second part of the exhibition, arranged in the Beta Gallery, focuses on the artist's earlier paintings and allows visitors to trace the development of her artistic language and examine her areas of interest, which oscillate between apocalyptic themes and epiphany. Here, Shahmuradova Tanska refers to biblical motifs of the creation and destruction of the world, placing the themes of her works on the border between life and death, dream and reality, as well as between the real and the surreal.