There's something arresting in the movement and perspective of the contemporary Ukrainian artist Victor Sydorenko's work. Many of his images seem to catch people in moments of suspension or flotation, or look at them from unexpected, inverted angles. In the above painting, Zero Year, he manages a sort of optical illusion: depending on how you train your eyes, the bodies are either in free fall or moving upwards towards the light. There is a suggestion of pleasure, as well as of terror, a tension that leaves them in a state of suspension, weightless and free.
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Thank you for introducing me to this artist. This line: "a tension that leaves them in a state of suspension, weightless and free" will stick with me. There is something so poignant about these words.
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Thank you for introducing me to this artist. This line: "a tension that leaves them in a state of suspension, weightless and free" will stick with me. There is something so poignant about these words.