My Mythology Series
The series is inspired by 6 scenes taken from stories of the Greek mythology, and are combined into a futuristic cold world. These pieces display the destruction of the ancient world with its beautiful and glorious architecture by new age technology and progress.
By taking pastoral landscapes filled with architectural remnants of glorious ancient empires and contrasting them with tied up animals representing the mighty gods in all their glory, these scenes represent the changes between the ancient world and the reality we live in nowadays, in which the mighty nature is being trampled by technology and progress, threatening the existence of our beautiful planet and the legacy we leave for future generations.
In the creations, I integrate imaginative images of sublime nature with a cold, futuristic urban vista which is slowly taking hold of our world. I am preoccupied with the accelerated processes taking place in our world which affect the environment, the climate, and nature, as well as the future we would like to give our children. Through these works, I would like to have some influence on public opinion for the sake of creating a better future.
In my works, the past is juxtaposed against the future, the myth of bravery against the empowerment of women, the myth of survival against that of commemoration. A dialog is formed between the stories and the characters discussing such issues as social rank, identity, might, power, adamance, and fate.
As it seems, the works all convey the sense that the experience of the setting is ambivalent, moving along the axis of an actual site and nowhere. On the one hand, they are searching for the connection with the past and the sense of belonging to it; on the other, they are placed on an unclear border between times. In actuality, these are imagined settings devoid of a concrete time.
Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love, mourning her lover, Adonis, who died at the hands of her consort, Ares, who was jealous of him, whilst the former was disguised as a boar. At the site of his death, red windflowers grew from his blood.
“Venus and Adonis”
“My Mythology, Echo and Narcissus”
“Goddess Hestia”
