Triumph of Life (2024-2025) (2024) by Krystyna Vershyna - subjektiv.art
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Krystyna Vershyna
Artist from Ukraine
Ukrainian artist working with ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Born in Berdyansk, a city currently under Russian occupation, she is now based in Lviv, Ukraine.
Her artistic practice explores memory, transformation, and the relationship between the human psyche and material form. Approaching clay as a living medium, she investigates its capacity to preserve traces of experience, emotion, and time. Through hand-built ceramic sculptures and vessels, she creates symbolic worlds inhabited by mythical creatures, ancient beasts, and hybrid forms.
Drawing on folk imagery, baroque ornamentation, and personal narratives, Vershyna creates works that explore resilience, identity, and the process of self-discovery through ceramic form.
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🏺 This work is conceived as an antipode to Triumph of Death (a 15th-century fresco in Palazzo Abatellis), which I encountered in person in 2024 and which deeply affected me. Holding onto hope for a brighter future, I felt compelled to create a counterpoint.
Death is only one of the cycles of life.
To sow life in the face of death is to believe that it will keep emerging again and again.
The imagery echoes the visual language of medieval aesthetics, yet the struggle between death and life unfolds here and now — on the arena of war.
Ukrainian artist working with ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Born in Berdyansk, a city currently under Russian occupation, she is now based in Lviv, Ukraine.
Her artistic practice explores memory, transformation, and the relationship between the human psyche and material form. Approaching clay as a living medium, she investigates its capacity to preserve traces of experience, emotion, and time. Through hand-built ceramic sculptures and vessels, she creates symbolic worlds inhabited by mythical creatures, ancient beasts, and hybrid forms.
Drawing on folk imagery, baroque ornamentation, and personal narratives, Vershyna creates works that explore resilience, identity, and the process of self-discovery through ceramic form.
