Young Ukrainian artists Yelyzaveta Obukhovska and Mykhailo Korobkov present a joint art exhibition “Destruction/Activation” at the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum.
Our country, our society, and every Ukrainian personally is experiencing destruction. We collapse inside every time we hear the news, every time an air raid alert comes. This is a difficult process of life that we cannot avoid, but if we are already “here”, we must go through this path to touch something new.
Recognizing the inevitability of the consequences, we realize that changes are not transient. Everything is changing right now, from the state of things around us to the consciousness of each of us.
And the next stage will be “Activation”. Activation is an impulse to act, to search for something new, or to revive something forgotten and very important. In the image of women, it is a symbol of the beginning of a new life. It is the connection of the present with the next day, with the day that is approaching. It is the energy that we radiate in the pursuit of freedom, its bright colors and expressive shapes push us to realize the inevitability of a brighter future.
About the authors:
Liza Obukhovska is an artist, illustrator and designer from Khmelnytskyi. She graduated from the Lviv Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts. But Liza does not bind herself to the framework of academic education, expressing her own views on the modern world. She displays her works in the form of panels, posters, illustrations, prints, complementing them with textile material.
She has participated in exhibitions:
2017 “Vizual Stage” art festival, Khmelnytskyi
2017 “New wave” festival of contemporary art, Lviv
2018 “Trick” personal exhibition of illustrations, Lviv
2020 “Intersubjectivity” art festival, Lviv
2021 “Avangard” gallery Dzyga, Lviv
2022 Charity auction, Kraków, Poland;
2022 “The Art of PeaceHTX” San Jacinto St., Houston
Mykhailo Korobkov was born in Sevastopol in 1985. He lives and works in Kyiv. He is a monumentalist artist. He mainly works on canvas, does wall painting and installation.
Higher technical education, 2002-2007 Crimean Art School named after Samokysh (painter), 2007-2011; Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (monumental painting), 2011-2017.
Group exhibitions: 05.2022 Charity Auction, Kraków, Poland; 2021 Helicon Art Center, Izmit, Turkey; 2019 Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of Ukraine, Kyiv; 07.2018 VDNH, Kyiv; 06-10.2018 AkT. Art-zavod Platforma, Kyiv.
Personal exhibitions: 2019 NATO Representation to Ukraine, Kyiv; 2017 Kavalava, Khmelnytskyi; 2013 Lviv modern art museum.
Participates in many projects and festivals of street art, participant of the AkT residency in 2018. He has created more than 15 murals in different cities of Ukraine, from small walls to twelve-story buildings. He also works with materials such as gypsum, plastic, polystyrene, metal, wood, and fabric.
