Terra aurea (lat.)- The Land of Gold (2025) by Anastasiia Protsenko - subjektiv.art
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Anastasiia Protsenko
Artist from Ukraine
Anastasiia Protsenko is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist who is currently working with sculpture. In her practice, she explores the themes of transience, duality, and rebirth.
Anastasiia collects metal waste from defence casting workshops and transforms it into art. Between the remnants of military production and the artist’s imagination, a new dialogue begins. The metal scrap becomes feminine and sensitive. Hard steel meets softness, giving birth to a harmony of Yin and Yang.
Her sculptures capture a suspended moment in time — a pause where being and not being coexist, creating the most intimate encounter of opposites. Each fragment of metal is unique, its form intuitively shaping the prototype of the future sculpture.
In the spring of 2025, Anastasiia’s studio was damaged by a Russian missile strike. Despite this, she returned to work, as art is her true vocation — the force that never allows her to stop. This experience illuminated another dimension of her practice: that which once seemed destroyed or obsolete can be reborn — like a Phoenix — transformed, renewed, and stronger.
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“Terra Aurea"(lat.) is a contemporary allegory of the Ukrainian land.
The sculpture unites the material and the spiritual.
Its surface resembles the map of Ukraine — living, breathing, and filled with history.
During the creation process, the artist's studio was struck twice by Shahed drones.
remained intact — a deeply symbolic moment for the artist.
This work transforms personal experience into a metaphor of rebirth.
Anastasiia Protsenko is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist who is currently working with sculpture. In her practice, she explores the themes of transience, duality, and rebirth.
Anastasiia collects metal waste from defence casting workshops and transforms it into art. Between the remnants of military production and the artist’s imagination, a new dialogue begins. The metal scrap becomes feminine and sensitive. Hard steel meets softness, giving birth to a harmony of Yin and Yang.
Her sculptures capture a suspended moment in time — a pause where being and not being coexist, creating the most intimate encounter of opposites. Each fragment of metal is unique, its form intuitively shaping the prototype of the future sculpture.
In the spring of 2025, Anastasiia’s studio was damaged by a Russian missile strike. Despite this, she returned to work, as art is her true vocation — the force that never allows her to stop. This experience illuminated another dimension of her practice: that which once seemed destroyed or obsolete can be reborn — like a Phoenix — transformed, renewed, and stronger.
