Hall №4
The Power of Nature
Retrospective personal exhibition of works by Larysa Pisha (Kyiv)
19 September 2024 - 1 November 2024

“And we, humans, were once born out of the love of the Earth and Heaven,” Larysa Pisha.
A person is thousands of lives before and after him or her. As well as a tree – thousands of trees before and after…
Violating all possible laws of nature, its limits and boundaries, humanity has recently begun to build a complex construct that is still mostly declarative rather than implemented – environmental ethics.
Larysa Pisha, a prominent representative of the New Ukrainian Wave, realized it since childhood. As a result, her work includes the humanization of animals (the series “Animals”) and plants (the series “Rusaniv Gardens”, “Flowers of Love”), the “naturalization” or zoomorphism and floralism of people (the series “Wings”, “Flight”, “Symbols of Love”, “Tree of My Family”, “Scars”). We are all interconnected, interdependent, and mutually vulnerable, so we have to be “mutually beautiful” in our relationships, the artist says in the symbolic language of painting without artificial moralizing. Speaking of morality, the love and affection, eroticism and sensuality that radiate from her works are also about the essence of nature and people, which would undoubtedly disappear without countless and ubiquitous acts of creation.
The artist does not try to compete or compete with the creative nature: she interacts, listens, and feels it. However, she also has the strength of character and the power of talent not to mimic or imitate reality, but to complement it – not only with new images, but also with unexpected angles and scaling: cutting off parts of the images, she boldly frames the composition, which becomes a challenge for the viewer’s imagination; enlarges and brings objects as close as possible, as if giving them existential weight.
The artist skillfully, passionately and enchantedly nurtures her magical and timeless Garden. Organically combining elements of the real and the imaginary, the real and the phantasmagoric, with a light smile and open arms, the artist explores the world of nature, where she integrates a person and his philosophy of life.
The metaphor of the garden to human life is accurate and eternal. The symbolism here is cross-cutting, multi-vector, cross-cultural: from the archaic concepts of grain and roots to the significance of the consequences of inspired work – flowers and fruits; from the sacred and philosophical “Garden of Divine Songs” (Hryhorii Skovoroda) to the sophisticated and intellectual “Garden with Branching Paths” (Jorge Luis Borges); from the logical “Roses and Grapes, Beautiful and Useful” (Maksym Rylskyi) to the wise “Everything in the World Grows, Blooms and Returns to Its Root” (Lao Tzu).
Larysa Pisha looks at the world with sincere love – from the life-giving and fragile flower to the giant and fragile planet Earth. She proves the importance of freedom as the highest value and a powerful force with her art – sincere and bold, passionate and free.

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