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Is it possible to escape something that has permanently burned you from within? Even if you are physically in safe Spain, images of destruction return without permission.
The café where you used to drink coffee every morning before work — destroyed. The university — gone. These devastating images overlay happy memories and consume them. External chaos breaks through.
This is a tragic and therapeutic image of the fact that you cannot escape war simply by crossing a border.
Note: A work from the “Escape” section of Olena Koliesnik’s series “Solomon’s Paradox.”The full series consists of 18 works created at the intersection of psychology, exploring reptilian survival instincts and the artist’s lived experience of emigration.
ARCHES Hot Pressed paper, 31 × 41 cm, 2024. Spain.
The café where you used to drink coffee every morning before work — destroyed. The university — gone. These devastating images overlay happy memories and consume them. External chaos breaks through.
This is a tragic and therapeutic image of the fact that you cannot escape war simply by crossing a border.
Note: A work from the “Escape” section of Olena Koliesnik’s series “Solomon’s Paradox.”The full series consists of 18 works created at the intersection of psychology, exploring reptilian survival instincts and the artist’s lived experience of emigration.
ARCHES Hot Pressed paper, 31 × 41 cm, 2024. Spain.
Artist
Olena Koliesnik
Material
ARCHES paper, watercolor
SIZE
31 × 41 cm