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Banitska Antoniia
My skin is thin —
that’s who I am,
sometimes it seems almost transparent,
and my petal-like insides are exposed.
Somewhere beneath it, the heart is like a grain of earth,
it shines outward,
despite everything that hurts me
it never fades.
In the installation consisting of 9 fragments, “My Skin is Thin,” the artist uses natural material from a kombucha mushroom that mimics human skin, and the drypoint technique, through which she scrapes graphics. The artist uses drawing as diary entries of her state over the course of a month, creating graphics in moments of greatest vulnerability. The combination of these layers becomes a means of exploring her own sensitivity—“thin-skinnedness”—both emotional and physical.
Education
Assortment Room, Frankivsk School of Contemporary Art fra fra fra, 2023-2024
Institute of Arts, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialty “Fine Arts” (Master’s Degree), 2023-2024
Lviv Polytechnic National University, specialty “Architecture and Urban Planning” (Bachelor’s Degree), 2019-2023
Ivano-Frankivsk Children’s Art School, 2015-2019
Workshops
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Sound in Art Projects with Anya Khvyl, 09.03-10.03.2024
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Land Art and Eco-Art with Nataliya Lisova, 10.02-11.02.2024
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Photography with Serhiy Melnychenko, 9.12-10.12.2023
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Performance with Yaroslav Futymskyi, Assortment Room, 11.11-12.11.2023
“Open Urban Lab Krakow: Hub for Social Resilience,” organized in cooperation between Vienna University of Technology and Lviv Polytechnic National University with the support of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, 27.02-2.03.2023
Group Exhibitions
“Seeding the Clouds,” graduation exhibition of the School of Contemporary Art fra fra fra, Assortment Room, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 01.06-13.06.2024
“With Faith in the Heart,” Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Ivan Franko, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 10.04-10.05.2024
Exhibition-Competition of Bachelor’s Diploma Projects in specialties 191 “Architecture and Urban Planning” and 022 “Design,” organized by the Lviv Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine for Independence Day of Ukraine, Center for Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, Pidvalna Tower, Lviv, Ukraine, 24.08.2023