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Valentyna Prytula
This project began as an experiment with an unstable material and a surface on which a gesture can exist only temporarily. Snow accepts any sign but does not commit to preserving it. An inscription on it lasts only as long as external conditions allow — temperature, humidity, and the movements of bodies nearby.
I am interested in the moment when a statement loses its form but does not disappear completely. After melting, what remains is a mixed layer of water and dirt — of promises and expectations. Something that can no longer be read as language, yet continues to exist physically.
The work follows a simple structure: statement → period of belief → dissolution. Within this cycle, it is important not only who speaks, but also those who agree to receive and believe.
Valentyna Prytula (b. 1998, Ukraine) is an artist working with ceramics, installation, and interdisciplinary media. She studied at the Myrhorod Art and Industrial College named after Mykola Hohol (2015–2019) and the Poltava Polytechnic National University named after Yuri Kondratyuk (2019–2022). Since 2024, she has been enrolled in a master’s program at the Institute of Artistic Ceramics and Glass in Germany.
For a long time, her practice was focused exclusively on ceramics; however, in recent years it has expanded to combine different materials and formats. The artist creates spatial statements in which form, emptiness, and materiality become carriers of experience.
In her work, Valentyna explores fragility, vulnerability, and processes of inner transformation, drawing on personal experience and employing metaphorical and poetic artistic strategies.
She has participated in international exhibitions, including the International Ceramic Biennale of Aveiro (Portugal), the Matera Hub project (Italy), as well as exhibitions in Germany and Ukraine.