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Moroz Polina
“A suffering world, yet covered with a quilt of spring blossoms.”
Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), poet, master of haiku, Japan
The work is an attempt to convey the duality, simultaneity, and contrast of life in all its shades. It depicts a sculpture of a female winch on a stump and speaks of naïve tenderness, devotion to people and one’s craft, even after a sleepless night of anxiety. Flowers, so deeply rooted in various traditions of Ukrainian culture and now woven into new Ukrainian rituals, represent the reproductive cycle of plants — one of the brightest, most colorful, and most fragrant manifestations of life. This work is about fragility, and about allowing oneself to feel beauty and love.
Polina Moroz was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1992. After obtaining a joint degree in art and architecture from the National Academy of Fine Arts (2013, Ukraine), she was part of an architectural collective PYLORAMA focused on participatory design in city public spaces. As part of the collective, she was involved in a Summer Art Academy (2015) organized by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Goethe Institute in the Ruhr region of Germany.
In 2015, she won a Swedish national scholarship to pursue Master’s degree in Spatial Experiments and Sustainable Urban Design at Lund University (Sweden). The course of two years included research projects with international institutions such as NASA in Houston, USA and Nankai University in Tianjin, China. In 2016, she pursued an internship in the Copenhagen-based architecture studio of Jeppe Utzon.
In 2018 collaborated with a studio of Karim Rashim in New York. In 2020, she worked as an architect at the Ferrier Marchetti bureau in a Sensual City Studio department in Paris. Since 2022 became a resident of a Paris based art collective Diametre 15.