Painting by Anna Kryvych

As a child, I was one of those kids who tore pages out of their notebooks if there was a mistake. I couldn't stand stains, corrections, uneven lines. My notebooks were always thin — because of that longing for a sterile space. A space where everything is under control, where there's no room for randomness, where things can be done right. Synthetarium is an echo of that. Of that childhood instinct. But now it's merged with a contemporary aesthetic, where sterility is no longer about cleanliness — it's about safety. A distilled environment where it's not frightening to have a body. Maybe not quite a human body - but a body that doesn't hurt, doesn't make mistakes, doesn't get anxious. And if it does, it experiences it differently. In this work — "SX 002 Models Venus & Ares" — I take Venus and Ares and give them another body. Models made for viewing. But still, I believe they can be Alive. Just in another way. This is no longer a body that feels, but one that experiences another kind of sensation. A body that might look like a gleaming shell - but still holds the attempt to regain feeling. Even if only simulated. Also this digital model served as a reference to my work “SX003 Models Venus & Ares” that I did in oil on canvas. I'm rethinking what makes the Living - alive. And whether re-humanization can begin with the synthetic. Not as a return, but as another form of closeness.