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Melnyk Krystyna
“A body that wants to be a landscape The body of a fallen soldier, merging with the earth. This is a poem written the day before the war started: To my unborn angels. I thought you came to heal us. But you came to remind us of yourselves. Remind us of the reason for your crucifixion. I want to lift every body that has fallen. But I have no strength. Any strength. From all of humanity.”
Krystyna Melnyk was born in 1993 in Melitopol, Ukraine.
Education
2019 – Viktor Marushchenko’s School of Photography, course on video art curated by Alina Kleytman
2018-2019 – Kyiv Academy of Media Art Contemporary Art Course
2014 – 2018 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture on monumental sacred department.
2010 – 2014 – Melitopol High College of Culture, Melitopol, Ukraine
“In my practice, I work with images using the double power of images. In figurative painting, I move away from the concept of narration in favor of a combination of different semantic layers.
The study of the sacred through the image of the suffering body has a significant role in my practice. I use such material as gesso primer in my works which is traditionally used in icon painting.”
Personal project
2020 – Personal exhibition, creative space “Okno”, Kyiv
Awards
2022 – Nominated for Pinchuk Art Prize
Participation in projects
2022 – Living according to the sky
2019 – “Crossroads Sea”, Voloshin Gallery, Kyiv
2019 – “Living Together”, exhibition after course on contemporary art at KAMA, The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv
