OLENA KAYINSKA

How a woman who didn’t get married, might feel herself in society? The reasons may be numerous: the relationship failed, she refused to give herself up to a man who could harm her, she was afraid of the weaker because she didn’t want a knife in her back, she was living a full life. The reasons are unimportant but her feelings are immensely important, when people ask her one more time: “So what, you never got married? Are you with somebody? Such rotten luck, you, this incredible woman going to waste before my very eyes.” The ribs symbolize the emptiness in the chest when you want to love, but you have no one to give your love to. And the flowers sprout to the sky right from that emptiness. The closed coffer represents this marriage and happiness, and the key to this chest also exists somewhere.

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Exhibition history:

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• 30 August – 4 September 2022 – Trauma, personal project, Our festival 8, contemporary art festival, Athens, Greece

• 6 July – 6 August 2022 – Neighbors came, personal project, restaurant Drunken Duck, Lviv, Ukraine

• 1 April 2022 – Modern Renaissance Magazine, Issue 11, Culturally Arts Collective

• 17 February – 31 March 2022 – Viewpoint, virtual exhibition, NAT gallery