Exhibition catalog: Discourse of War
This exhibition is about the impact of the war on the lives and creative paths of artists in Ukraine and worldwide. We want to show how artists’ attitude to art has changed during this year. How changed the vector of their creativity and attitude to the language of art in connection with these events. War has no nationality or religion. War has an impact on everyone individually and on all of humanity in general. Our goal is to show how artists from different parts of the world perceive war. This is an art discourse between artists and viewers.
This exhibition is about the impact of the war on the lives and creative paths of artists in Ukraine and worldwide. We want to show how artists’ attitude to art has changed during this year. How changed the vector of their creativity and attitude to the language of art in connection with these events.
War has no nationality or religion. War has an impact on everyone individually and on all of humanity in general. Our goal is to show how artists from different parts of the world perceive war. This is an art discourse between artists and viewers.
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KATERYNA GONCHAROVA
Yerevan, Armenia
@kateryna_goncharova | www.kg-artist.com
About artwork
War is like some kind of inevitable force, something moving towards you like an element, silent
and inescapable. Something indescribable, which causes fear and awe, which cannot be bypassed,
which must be passed through. Like a piglet in front of a snake, you stand and look into
its eyes, and they, like a mirror, reflect everything they see: pain, rage, fear, strength, despair,
hope, courage, fear, obsession, sacrifice, love, death, lust to life - everything is in these eyes, everything
that people go through, because everyone has their own limit state, their own mystical
night, their own entrance into their own hell, sometimes without a guarantee of exit.
This picture is a puzzle, it is full of references and semantic parallels, each image can be divided into
a separate plot, but they are all interconnected. It is impossible to fit into a flat picture all that multidimensional
chaos of destruction and transformation that war brings to our lives and our souls.
An orphaned and widowed soul hid in the darkness of war.
All in black, but alive. And no matter what horror is in front of the eyes, the soul knows that life
will still win!
Про роботу
Війна – це як якась неминуча сила, щось рухається на вас, як стихія, мовчазна і
невідворотня. Щось невимовне, що викликає страх і трепет, що неможливо обійти,
через що треба пройти. Як ховрашок перед змією, ти стоїш і дивишся їй в очі, а вони, як
дзеркало, відображають усе, що бачать: біль, лють, страх, силу, відчай, надію, мужність,
страх, одержимість, жертовність, любов, смерть, жагу до життя – все в цих очах, усе, через
що проходять люди, бо в кожного свій межовий стан, своя містична ніч, свій вхід у власне
пекло, часом без гарантії виходу.
Ця картина є ребусом, вона насичена відсиланнями та смисловими паралелями, кожен
образ можна розкласти в окремий сюжет, але всі вони взаємопов’язані. Неможливо
вписати в плоску картину весь той багатовимірний хаос руйнування та трансформації,
який війна приносить у наше життя та наші душі.
У темряві війни сховалася осиротіла й овдовіла душа. Вся в чорному, але жива. І який би
жах не стояв перед очима, душа знає, що життя все одно переможе!
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