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Pavlenko Maria

Pavlenko Maria

Good news for connoisseurs of Ukrainian photography - in the gallery 5.6 a new series of works by Ukrainian photographer Pavlenko Maria has already appeared. Her unique project touches upon the currently relevant topic - the architecture of Kiev.

Maria has been taking photographs for quite a long time, moreover, she is engaged in a meaningful, conscious and deep way. At the moment, after graduating from the master's program in Germany, Maria lives and works in Poland.


We had time to meet with Maria in Kiev.

First, about success:

“I would define my path to success as a change in my attitude towards success, or a change in how I define success. Now it’s more like satisfaction with the system of built-in internal criteria. The basis of everything for me is family, close people, friends and relationships with them. Next comes the social role, self-realization and satisfaction from the quality of the work performed. According to this criterion - success, in the sense of fame, is only one of the tasks of self-realization, and not an end in itself. If I choose the social role of the artist, I choose publicity, and my statement needs a response. Somewhere from this position, public recognition is a goal for me, but no more. what matters is not only the result, but also the way to achieve it, the path to it.

After the end of the master's program, the moment came when I felt the horror of the amount of material I created in 10 years and his condition. There was a natural desire to restore order, to print something, to publish something, to finally set a price and sell something. I am working on it now. ”

On the role of art in the education of man and in general on contemporary art, Maria says the following: “It seems to me that, regardless of the chosen profession, a person can get the ability to think outside patterns, art, flexibility. It inspires someone, gives someone the opportunity to relax and switch. How not cool, art is good, because it makes people more humane.

On the other hand, the peculiarity of modern art is such that a representative of any profession can enter it. In essence, contemporary art is a utopian modernist project. The possibilities and talents of any person are endless, any obstacles are comprehensible, and so on. Somewhere on such energy, Belka and Strelka were launched into Cosmos first, after that was Gagarin. But, like any dream, and this one embodied in reality turned out to be not completely the same as it seemed. As a result, today it is difficult to understand who the artist is, and who just posts photos on Instagram, who is a professional, and who just made friends with the “right people” or bought the “right media”. Art is serial and media, and probably one of the few who managed to grasp the essence of what is happening in his texts is Boris Groys. At least, many Ukrainian politicians are more performative than Ukrainian artists. ”

Работы из серии "Утепление"  можно посмотреть и приобрести здесь: http://56store.com.ua/catalog/pavlenko-mariya

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