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In her exhibition ‘The Highest Point of an Empty Temple’, Polina Shcherbyna looks into the disappointments, and horrors of the 21st century, referring to the cycle of tragedy and hope that repeats itself throughout the whole human history. She examines human weaknesses, the conflict between good and evil and the paradox of human existence – such as how people sacrifice freedom and rights in their fight for freedom and rights.
The central theme of the exhibition is the victim, through the sacred images reflecting on historical events such as the siege of Kyiv 1240, the Second World War and the Russian-Ukrainian War. In her artworks, Shcherbyna enters into a dialogue with the philosophical ideas of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt as well as with Andrei Tarkovsky's film 'Andrey Rublev' etc.
From an aesthetic and sensory point of view, the exhibition is reminiscent of a temple, but with sacred images as artifacts of pain in the modern world through the prism of suffering Christian…
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In her exhibition ‘The Highest Point of an Empty Temple’, Polina Shcherbyna looks into the disappointments, and horrors of the 21st century, referring to the cycle of tragedy and hope that repeats itself throughout the whole human history. She examines human weaknesses, the conflict between good and evil and the paradox of human existence – such as how people sacrifice freedom and rights in their fight for freedom and rights.
The central theme of the exhibition is the victim, through the sacred images reflecting on historical events such as the siege of Kyiv 1240, the Second World War and the Russian-Ukrainian War. In her artworks, Shcherbyna enters into a dialogue with the philosophical ideas of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt as well as with Andrei Tarkovsky's film 'Andrey Rublev' etc.
From an aesthetic and sensory point of view, the exhibition is reminiscent of a temple, but with sacred images as artifacts of pain in the modern world through the prism of suffering Christian…
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