Great reboot (2022) Painting by Lana Korolievskaia

This painting was created at the very beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is a historical document expressing the confused, ambiguous thoughts that captured both my mind and the minds of my compatriots. At that time, no one could imagine what this terrible confrontation could result in. Outbursts of conflicting emotions - fear, revenge, horror, indignation, hope, disappointment, bewilderment - this is an approximate list of what people experienced. Vivid feelings, shaking the consciousness, replaced each other with incredible suddenness, like flashes of lightning in bad weather. We were terribly shocked by the events around us and our reaction to them, but not monstrously tired as we are now - more than 3 years later. We did not suspect that it could drag on for so long, did not understand whether we would be able to endure for so long and what we could expect afterwards, what is the best way to act - to stay here or to leave this place forever without thinking, how to adapt to a new life and be able to cope with ourselves. Everyone acted in accordance with their principles and capabilities. Someone could not stand it and committed suicide. Many people discovered unknown qualities in the depths of their subconscious, which they had not even suspected before. This series includes several other artworks similar in approach and unique energy. I can't and don't want to create anything like this anymore. "Great reboot" is an expression of one of the aspects of such experiences.
On the 4th day of the war, February 28, the third painting in the emerging series was painted. The plane of the canvas is densely covered with irregularly shaped spots, bright in color. They create the impression of confrontation and struggle
for the space that they can take. All this resembles heterogeneous substances that are unable to combine into one substance. They take on complex outlines, refusing to react with each other, fencing themselves off with thin white contours, remaining with their own opinion, ignoring the opinions of others. Under the influence of an external force, everything in life has gone awry. This feeling is conveyed by the plastic solution of the composition through the dynamic displacement of all elements: pure colors of paint seem to float, but have not yet mixed with each other, turning into a homogeneous gray substance. The conflict of interests comes to light together with the deferred discrepancies in the views of countries, regimes, ideologies, worldviews, peoples. Multidirectional vectors of movement collide with each other, without finding a reasonable solution. Blood is shed, destinies are broken, lives of people and entire generations are interrupted. Through painful experience, new temporary rules of interaction with the unstable reality of a chaotic world are developed. Therefore, this picture is about the first stage of the beginning of the "Great Reboot". It covers the whole world, and we are not talking only about Ukraine. The colored chaotically spreading spots express the socio-political shifts that have affected the entire world.

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