Paper series

Ready-made from the "Rolled" series. Created to reflect on the form and value of art. Does this household item become a unique artifact, or does a work of art acquire everyday functionalitv?

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For the past few years I've been working on

subjects of acceptance, awareness and

refocusing, phenomena of inevitability - how a person relives the circumstances they have no

power to change.

In 2020 I started working on a new series of paintings, using an image of a fish with no tail and no head. This same image had appeared before, in my series "Fatum Icon", symbolising the absence of choice.

In my new series "Rolled". Itied the fish up - designating suffering and feeling hopeless of inability to change the matters we have no control of.

Namely - decease, catastrophes, other people's decisions, our sense of injustice.

This feelings tie us up, become obsessive and unbearable.

The tension is growing while everything else is evaporating.

The food is tasteless and the world is colourless. Our conscience turns into a bound clump and we don't see a way out.

While working with this topic in my paintings I faced my father's terminal illness and shortiv after - the war in my country (Ukraine).

This two occasions highlighted n o tjust the emotional resemblance of feeling clumped, but visual a s well.

With the beginning of war many historical monuments around the cities were wrapped in fabric and surrounded with sandbags in a futile attempt to protect them from shelling.

That was very symbolic to me, dealing with the matters out human control.

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Vadym Panchenko