States

by Ірина Власюк

“"In my practice, I explore the topics of interaction between human and the external environment, contact between people, the feeling of oneself in space, the connection of the emotional, mental, spiritual with the physical, bodily. While studying and practicing body psychotherapy, I saw how trauma and unexpressed emotions manifest through bodily reactions. I also use this knowledge in my artistic activity. In general, my creativity has a therapeutic focus both for me and for the participants of my practices, it encourages reflection and self-knowledge.

My States project was created in 2024 using media such as photo and collage.

In today's world, people often feel like strangers in their own bodies. Constant stress, fatigue, the situation in the world, war greatly affect our well-being. I study how a person's subconscious manifests through the body, often a traumatic experience that the person has repressed and does not want to notice. All our emotional manifestations pass through the body or remain in it in the form of spasms, pain, when we refuse to freely express these emotions. The body seems to be numb and we feel it badly. According to the principle of metaphorical cards, each viewer has the opportunity to freely interpret the artworks, highlighting for himself those aspects that are important to him at the moment, in order to better understand his condition, feel his body, its reactions."