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2021
Acrylic on canvas
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Dimensions: 60cm (H) x 80cm (W) x 2cm (D) / 23.6" (H) x 31.5" (W) x 0.8" (D)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings.
Artist Statement
The war made these people take out their roots and go on a journey. While getting away from disaster, the people abandoned their houses with property earned, barns, full of grain, yards with flowers, and betook themselves to new places, getting round numerous blockposts. The people carried their children, elderly parents, cats, and dogs, and the rest they left for the enemy looting. The people possessed houses and homes, and now they have nothing but what they can carry.
The painting was exhibited:
15 – 17 April 2022 – Ukrainian Days, a cultural festival, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 March – 14 April 2022 – War is not peace, a group exhibition, Espace29 Gallery, Bordeaux, France
28 March 2022 – Volnanova, online exhibition – International art event, dedicated to heroic confrontation of Ukrainian nation against russian occupants in russian-Ukrainian war
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Artist Profile
Born: 1984
Hometown: Lviv
Based in: Lviv, Ukraine
I am Olena Kayinska, an artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. I work with naїve or pure art techniques, paired together with deep philosophical and psychological senses. My fields of research are finding of inner peace, post-trauma recovery, human inborn kindness, and love as the driving force of Universe. My paintings-dreams take the observers inside, to the subconscious, to the core. Trying to find the inner self, the observer wanders through the imaginary world, fantastic forests, filled with symbolic images and archetypical symbols, inhabited with mysterious creatures, each of which provides a guide to the final destination – our heart. My aim is to make people happier.
My paintings show the endlessness of obvious and unobvious relationships in this world with the help of mysterious storylines with the metaphysical sense. Being the guide between the worlds, I mix reality and magic in a genuine meditative form of my witchcraft. Direct ascetism of the flat surfaces, completeness, and persuasiveness of the compositions, seamless statics, graphical coding of the deep sense into the schematic images, order, and rhythm of the paintings focus the observer’s attention on what is underneath.
I participated in 45+ exhibitions, contemporary art festivals and art residencies, and exhibited 3 personal projects. My paintings are kept in museum funds and private collections in Ukraine, Germany, United States, and Turkey.
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