Introspection

Voloshyn Gallery presents the curator project of Ksenia Malykh “Introspection”.

The project is part of a series of traditional summer exhibitions of young Ukrainian artists Summer Show, but with a delay because of the quarantine. The exhibiton participants are Dana Kavelina, Kateryna Lisovenko, Al Hash and Ilya Chernyshevsky.

“Therapy can be one of the purposes of artistic practice: for artists, for objects of their art, for the spectator. But therapy cannot be an end in itself in artistic practice, just as art cannot be an end in itself in art therapy. The trau-ma studied in artistic practice is embodied in images, finds a voice.

Wounds and injuries are more noticeable to those who share them. They are able to notice them faster, see more clearly, articulate more accurately. Personal stories grow into universal triggers: fear, violence, corporality, identity.