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Lena Solomenchuk
Born
1981
City
Zaporizhzhia
Catalog
UART 2023
Date of signing
March, 2022
Biography
Being an artist was inevitable — She was conceived by two students of the Grekov’s school, during the summer holidays, in August 1980. Her mother defended her diploma with her in the womb. Born in May 1981, she knew she would be into art. Lena’s aesthetic preferences are shaped by several factors: the city where she was born — Zaporizhzhia — industrial, growing up in Odessa – it shaped her as an artist. Two completely different places, each is beautiful in its own way. In Zaporizhzhia, a love for Soviet monumental architecture was formed, in Odessa — unique atmosphere & Europeian-style architecture.
Ideas and concepts
To be or to give up?
In the age of social networks, when the main question is – to be or to give up? – I would like to make a person think and feel. Perhaps this is the most difficult, but the most important mission of the artist. Literally on a physiological level, I feel the ulcers of modern society and try to show this drama in my works.
Since the beginning of progress, we have been slowly and confidently engaged in self-destruction and the destruction of the planet on which we live, showing our consumer attitude. Innocent scientific discoveries are turning into marketing tricks that have wild consequences for humanity. We can find destructive uses and ways to enrich ourselves by cynically manipulating good intentions.
I am a cosmopolitan and problems such as slave labor in third world countries, poverty and disease, which for many is an abstraction, are quite urgent for me. I think the artist needs to talk about this with the viewer with the help of his unique artistic language.