Inside Natasha Goncharova’s Resonance at Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc
On 9 June, Resonance, a solo exhibition by Natasha Goncharova, opened at Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc in Paris. Conceived with curator Sofia Kovaleva, the project was realized in partnership with Galerie Merman.
The exhibition unfolded across the chapel’s altar, nave, and entrance portal, bringing together painting, objects, and video projection. Rather than treating the chapel as a neutral exhibition space, Goncharova worked directly with its architecture and historical details. Dates found in the stained-glass windows became starting points for new works, linking public traces of time with fragments from the artist’s personal archive.
In the altar area, twenty-four painted pairs were installed on vertical structures recalling an iconostasis. Each pair began with a date from the chapel’s stained glass, matched by the artist with a date from her own life. Goncharova painted the same remembered image twice, with her right hand and then with her left, turning memory into a physical exercise as much as an image-making process.
In the nave, the artist continued this method through objects and material experiments based on urban marks and industrial imprints. At the entrance, a video projection brought together archival images in a moving stream, shifting the exhibition from fixed objects to the unstable flow of recollection.
Natasha Goncharova, born in Moscow in 1995, lives and works between Paris and Aubervilliers. A 2025 graduate of ESADHaR, she has exhibited in France and internationally and co-founded KNM Collective.