“The Mirror That Didn’t Know Whom To Reflect (Final Form)”, 2025 (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 (Final Form)”, 2025
Subjectivity begins from within as a purely embodied experience that does not require witnesses.
With the development of cognitive functions, the ability to perceive oneself from the outside emerges. This mechanism is neutral: it does not distort experience but extends it by introducing a distance between the subject and its own body. It is what makes identity, sociality, and culture possible.
At a certain point, however, this external form begins to replace the way the subject experiences itself. What was meant to be a tool of self-perception displaces experience itself. A paradox emerges: the mechanism that constructs the subject simultaneously annihilates it.
In this system, the mirror is not the cause of this shift but its fixation - the point at which the substitution becomes visible.
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”.
