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Olena Yemelianova
Artist from Ukraine
Olena Yemelianova ukrainian artist whose practice includes watercolor, acrylic, collage and photography. In her artistic research, she explores how people come to understand themselves through the expression of emotions and feelings, living through significant or everyday events in their lives. Considering the environment as a trigger for the process of self-discovery, she draws attention to the connection between life, historical and emotional processes that inspire the urban theme, as the development of a symbiotic structure, time and easy living. She exhibited both at personal exhibitions in Kharkov (Ukraine) and at group exhibitions (such as: “Invisible Gardens”, National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv;
“Ineradicable places of Ukraine”, Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Assembly of Artists of Ukraine, Central House of the Artist, Kyiv; “United by watercolor”, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa). She is most inspired by architecture and elements of the urban landscape.Оlena's paintings offer reflections on the fact that we build our lives as architects of our destiny, and that we are constantly transforming and expanding, just like the architectural forms that surround us.
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Threshold of liberation
Painting by Olena Yemelianova
36 x 54 cm • Watercolor and paper
Location:
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Picture from the series "Borders and Spaces".
This picture depicts a state between two worlds — the known and the unknown, the feeling of being trapped and the desire for freedom. A station with columns is a symbol of a crossroads, where time stops and a person finds himself at the moment of choice. Two female hands holding tightly to the columns represent the fear of stepping out of the comfort zone, reflecting the inner conflict and the struggle to maintain stability, even when it becomes a limitation. Birds flying in the sky are a symbol of freedom, new opportunities and potential that opens up to those who are ready to let go of the past and start with a clean slate.
Letting go of our attachments and stepping into the unknown, or holding on to a situation even when it no longer serves us, is a difficult choice that each person makes on their own. And the path to inner harmony often begins with a step into the unknown.
The picture shows the building of the Kharkiv railway station, which in the first month of the war became for many people the same way into the unknown and salvation from the surrounding horror.
My work here is the only copy of my unique and original handiwork.
Household images are computer generated and may not be to scale and are for illustrative purposes only.
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Location:
Kharkiv, Ukraine
About the artist
Olena Yemelianova
Artist from Ukraine
Olena Yemelianova ukrainian artist whose practice includes watercolor, acrylic, collage and photography. In her artistic research, she explores how people come to understand themselves through the expression of emotions and feelings, living through significant or everyday events in their lives. Considering the environment as a trigger for the process of self-discovery, she draws attention to the connection between life, historical and emotional processes that inspire the urban theme, as the development of a symbiotic structure, time and easy living. She exhibited both at personal exhibitions in Kharkov (Ukraine) and at group exhibitions (such as: “Invisible Gardens”, National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv;
“Ineradicable places of Ukraine”, Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Assembly of Artists of Ukraine, Central House of the Artist, Kyiv; “United by watercolor”, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa). She is most inspired by architecture and elements of the urban landscape.Оlena's paintings offer reflections on the fact that we build our lives as architects of our destiny, and that we are constantly transforming and expanding, just like the architectural forms that surround us.
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