Morozova Olena

“Over the last few years, thoughts of freedom, immortality, and the dependence of some people on others and on one’s own body have visited me more and more frequently. These reflections have led me to the creation of certain collages.

The series contains references to the evolution of the perception of the human body: the ancient body as a temple of the divine, the humiliation of the flesh for the sake of spirituality in the Middle Ages, the cult of the healthy body in totalitarian regimes, modern body positivity, transhumanism of the future… We find ourselves in the theatre of alternative corporeality, where the defragmentation of the body is a symbol of the deconstruction of all these ideas through the optics of socio-cultural identity (privilege, subordination, freedom).

What awaits us in future? Utopia or dystopia? Immortality or the end of the human? Or… 

Visual art for me is not just a craft, a profession and a set of skills, it is primarily a philosophy, lifestyle, way of thinking, self-development and movement forward.

There can be no stops, no backward direction, only forward and upward.

Visual art greatly helps me to know myself and the world. My visual works are a search for my reflections, feelings and emotions in space, in nature, in people, in lines and forms, my conversation with myself. I ask myself questions, look for answers around and visualize them.

It brings pleasure both to work on my projects, and working out professional skills, absorbing the experience of those colleagues whose works inspires. So gradually, step by step, constantly evolving and improving, with love for myself and the world, I go to meet my beauty, my style, my art.”