Merging with the Garden
Rukh Art Hub proudly presents Merging with the Garden, an exquisite art exhibition at Mriya Gallery, curated by Polina Kuznetsova featuring works by 20 emerging and established artists who explore the themes of birth, death, and rebirth. Showcasing a harmonious fusion of contemporary artworks by talented artists from Ukraine and the USA, this event promises a captivating exploration of life's ever-changing essence.
The show is a vibrant palette of artworks that invite the audience into a metaphorical garden of life where they can contemplate the intricate beauty of existence that unfolds in a myriad of ways. Project curator Polina Kuznetsova vividly reflects on the profound connection between humanity and nature, comparing the experience of “merging with a garden” to a transcendent moment of unity and transformation:
“When in a garden in the early spring, your senses heighten, slightly more at dawn in heavy fog or twilight hour that tells of coming nightfall. The misty air falls onto your skin, infused with odors given off by the fertile soil adorned with patchworks of last year’s foliage. Still, bare branches intertwine to form a mesmerizing web that pulls your gaze into this hypnotizing lacework, and looking in you let your mind wander. Your thoughts fall captive to ethereal beauty and you become then one with your surroundings, if only for a moment. And in that instant of you merging with the garden, the angst of your demise retreats, as death itself then ceases to exist, and all that's left is nothing, but an endless transformation cycle that reshapes the forms of matter. You are the garden — you can be a patch of moss, a lump of soil, or a budding sapling that's shooting up into the soaring skies. Embracing a garden that's within, your senses heighten slightly, but here, in a place that knows no good or evil, with no ugliness or beauty, you lastly can just be. Contrasting is a garden in the summertime, when life's supremacy, albeit deceptive, still appears everlasting. The life itself is here in full bloom, it bears fruit and celebrates its triumph. Forgotten are old doubts and dreariness is all but in the past. A heavy cloak of thickset herbage hides from view the soil – the only chronicle that tells of bygone winters and summons fables of the yore. When lying down on a bed of grass, before you fall asleep it feels as if you hear songs of Eve and Adam's laughter as if the Earth had known nothing but the sun, and love, and dreams.”
Featured Artists:
Anastasia Mitikova
Alice Konokhova
Artem Humilevskyi
Ave Libertatemaveamor
Diana Ruban
Liza Obukhovska
Kateryna Reznichenko
Mariko Gelman
Maryna Handysh
Miroslava Denisuk
Mykola Kolomiets
Oleksii Revika
Polina Kuznetsova
Polina Verbytska
Miquel Bonilla
Victoria Kalaichi
Valeriia Tarasenko
Sergey Melnitchenko
Taras Haida
Tata Kolesnik
