UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Jul 15 — On July 13, the Tvorche Nezhit [“Creative Undead” in translation from English] gallery in Kharkiv presented Maryna Chaika’s solo exhibition called “Transformation: Reboot.”
Мaryna Chaika is a photographer and digital artist who crafts work of abstract, concept, and digital art.
Maryna is from Kryvyi Rih but has been living in Kharkiv for a long time. On July 13, she opened an exhibition about self-discovery and the search for new senses in conditions [of war] that seem to be collapsing. Gwara Media journalists attended the event.
“Transformation is the announcement about the death of one sense and the rebirth of another,” Мaryna Chaika said.
Rebirth is a path of self-exploration, Chaika explained, and, like any other, it has stages. There are only three of them, and each subsequent one cannot exist without the previous one.
The first is bodily geometry. This is the starting point: returning to yourself as a “material being.” It is important to turn attention to yourself in difficult moments, to your body, to recognize it.
The second is energy and transformation, the metaphysical values.
“It reveals other more sacred meanings,” the artist told about the transformation of consciousness and spiritual search in this exhibition.
The third and last one is social meanings and the need to study the context and people around you.
“This need [to study the context and people] arises when our exploration of the physical and spiritual is satisfied. Then we try to find some general social meaning through ourselves,” explains Maryna Chaika.
The works presented at the exhibition cannot solve the problem of finding oneself. However, they are dedicated to self-reflection and healing. The search for life in the collapse of war is possible. It needs to be explored.
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