DESCRIPTION
I like to explore the theme of spirituality and sexuality.
I have often asked myself: Is there a boundary where one ends and another begins?
To find an answer to this question, I decided to turn to the story of Ishtar - goddess of love.
In the times of Sumerian civilization, goddess Ishtar was greatly appreciated. Both men and women worshipped to her, considered her the main goddess and patroness for people. Thus people were idealizing woman, deifying her femininity, sensuality and creative power of her instinctive nature. Female sexuality was thought to be an integral part of her spiritual nature. Sexuality is vitally important for both men and women in achieving their psychological integrity.
After long time of search and consideration, I realized that for me spirituality and sexuality are one and the same thing. That's exactly how Nature created it. And I got a desire to represent this awareness in my photo project.
While communicating with my daughter, photographing her for many years, seeing her as my reflection, I have always dreamed and aimed to recreate an archetypal image of the goddess of love. Image full of sensuality, where creative feminine nature would be combined in one with...
AUTHOR
Olena Morozova
Artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine
Education
2020 - School of conceptual and art photography MYPH, Ukraine
2020 - SKVOT, Creative training, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 - Dimitri Bogachuk's author's photo courses "Coloristics I", "Coloristics II"
2018 - Kyiv Photography School, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 - Photostudyme, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 - Studio 1, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 - Vivat, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 - Privat Art School Vasilenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 - National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Exhibitions:
2020 - MYPH GRADUATES ONLINE SHOW
2020 - Photo Kyiv Fair 2020, online addition
2020 - "New Generation", Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 - Photo Kyiv Fair 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine, exhibition catalogue
2019 - Kyiv Photography School Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards&Mentions
2021 - TIFA 2020, Bronze
2020 - IPA 2020 First Place
2020 - IPA 2020 Honorable Mention
2020 - Kyiv Photography School Award - Photographer 2020 First Place
2019 - px3 Honorable Mention
2016 - 35Awards, top 500
Publications
2021 - YourDailyPhotograph Jan, 31 http://eepurl.com/hpjGV1
2020 - Vogue Italy, photovouge
2019 - exhibition catalogue of Kyiv Photo Fair 2019
Articles
2019 - Wellnes Magazine: Uniqueness is More Important than Beauty. (Dec. 2019)
