About ‘When the shell breaks’ by Olena Zhukova
Organic forms, dark recesses and flowing, viscous-looking structures cover the canvas like skin that is losing its grip. The composition is dominated by sombre browns, ochres and cool blues, punctuated by deep, shadowy caverns that draw the eye into an intangible depth. The texture appears both fluid and frozen, heavy and…
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In my art, I explore what is difficult to bear, difficult to look at and sometimes almost impossible to put into words.
I try not to repress or gloss over what is frightening, but rather to transform it into something I can engage with – something I can look at, perhaps even find beautiful. In doing so, the uncanny is not lost. It remains, changes its form and becomes part of something new.
For me, art is a way of processing experiences, of integrating the…