Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, 2019
Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit was a Hutsul painter, folklorist, ethnographer, philosopher, and photographer. She lived a solitary life in the Carpathian village Kryvorivnia and has become one of the cultural symbols of this place and the whole Hutsul region. However, the artist remains little known to the general public. Paraska created her own microcosm existing on the verge of truth and fiction where reality intertwines with the mystical so closely that they cannot be separated. Her life was a difficult path of trials where Paraska managed to keep her trust in people, embrace the philosophy of love, and learn to travel through art without leaving her village.
The exhibition Overcoming Gravity at Mystetskyi Arsenal is a journey through the world of spiritual images, fairy-tale texts, ethnographic notes, fictional landscapes, and documentary photographs.
Photos Chernichkin Kostyantyn
