I started working on this series in September 2022. After the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. When I recovered from the shock and had a burning desire to create something beautiful in contrast to the destruction that Russian missiles brought to Ukraine.
The Synergy of Beauty series was created with the message that in spite of everything, despite pain, fear and destruction, you can create something beautiful. Combining the beauty of flowers and women and carrying the idea of faith and the victory of beauty over destruction.
To realize my idea, I turned to surrealism - it gives freedom of creativity and imagination so that the viewer can add their own meanings.
But surrealism is always about working with the subconscious, so additional meanings began to open up to me while working with the series.
The deepest meaning is that these works convey the state that I and, probably, most Ukrainians plunged into with the beginning of the full-scale invasion - when you lost your bearings and don't understand how to behave and where to look for new meanings and support at a time when your world has collapsed.
Therefore, architectural elements were added to the triptychs as a symbol of support and stability. Because I want them to carry the positive message that I have been putting in them from the very beginning.
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Synergy of beauty (triptychs) (Series)
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Iryna Domashenko was born in Odesa in 1980. Currently lives in Kyiv. In 1997 graduated from Odesa Art School 2. She received higher education, graduating from the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design in 2006. Since 2023, she has been a member of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine. In 2023, part of the series “Synergy of Beauty” won 1st place at the international photo contest Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3) and 2nd place at the International Photography Awards, and the works also received silver awards at the Tokyo International Foto Awards and bronze at the Budapest International Foto Awards. The artist's works are kept in the permanent collections of the Khmelnytsky Museum-Studio of Photo Art and the Museum of Kyiv History.
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