The Mirror That Didn’t Know Whom to Reflect (initial form) (2025) by Yuliia Holub - subjektiv.art
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Yuliia Holub
Artist from Ukraine
Yuliia was born in 2002 in Volnovaha, eastern Ukraine. She now lives in Kyiv. She studied at the M.Boychuk State Academy of Fine Arts and Design and NAFAA.
Yuliia works in the direction of modern conceptual art, creating a synthesis between abstract and surrealist art. By her own account, she aims to purify creativity from unnecessary signs and images, so that it can become a mirror for the viewer's inner world.
Her works have a philosophical and esoteric subtext, but are based solely on the game of subjectivity.
“I was born in a city that was occupied by Russia on March 5, 2022, I experienced many tests that significantly influenced my art. My works are an attempt to explore complex emotions: loss, fighting trauma and searching for lost harmony. The surreal world is my shelter. A journey between consciousness and the subconscious. A world of passion, illusions, dreams and secrets. Wild imagination finds peace on canvas and paints, carving out the eternal conflict of light and dark”.
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The Mirror That Didn’t Know Whom to Reflect (initial form)
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF
2025, work in process
In contemporary consciousness, the mirror ceases to function as reflection — it simulates truth, offering the desired in place of the real.
Here, the body is no longer a central presence but appears half-dissolved, fading at the edge between the visible and the simulated. The surrounding space destabilizes the subject, leaving only outlines where identity used to be.
The flame in this series is not enlightenment, but the edge between self and copy. Self- knowledge becomes impossible without refusing the naive belief in an “authentic I”.
The mirror is not a site of contact, but of projection — reality dissolves into wishful thinking, and the image ceases to be a response, becoming a substitution.
Yuliia was born in 2002 in Volnovaha, eastern Ukraine. She now lives in Kyiv. She studied at the M.Boychuk State Academy of Fine Arts and Design and NAFAA.
Yuliia works in the direction of modern conceptual art, creating a synthesis between abstract and surrealist art. By her own account, she aims to purify creativity from unnecessary signs and images, so that it can become a mirror for the viewer's inner world.
Her works have a philosophical and esoteric subtext, but are based solely on the game of subjectivity.
“I was born in a city that was occupied by Russia on March 5, 2022, I experienced many tests that significantly influenced my art. My works are an attempt to explore complex emotions: loss, fighting trauma and searching for lost harmony. The surreal world is my shelter. A journey between consciousness and the subconscious. A world of passion, illusions, dreams and secrets. Wild imagination finds peace on canvas and paints, carving out the eternal conflict of light and dark”.
