Natalie Levkovska

personal exhibition "Will everything be grass again?"

On February 24, I entered the studio, looked at the work I had begun, and sadly thought that all this was not important. Today it doesn't matter at all. A year ago, when I was planning this series of works, the issues of ecology of the surrounding world and individual existentialism seemed very significant and relevant. But war turns everything upside down and exposes other values such as peace, freedom and human dignity. It sounds like a poster in peacetime, but today, against the background of destroyed cities, millions of disturbed lives and numerous human losses, this becomes very important and basic, without which all other questions become just empty forms.

I believe that one day peace will come and one will begin to pay attention to issues of ecology and human existence.

In this series of works, I combined two topics that are important for me: the attitude towards nature as part of one's living space and the existential question of the individual personality.

In the cycle, I mix paintings with views of pines that protect the dunes from marine corrosion; views of flowering meadows with fragments of vintage sculptures drowning in flowers and photographs of garbage left in the forest, taken during walks in the nearest surroundings. When I stumble upon something like this, usually in very beautiful, picturesque corners of nature, I ask myself: where in human nature does the need to destroy the beautiful come from? When I think about it, I find a lot of suggestions, but perhaps one of the main answers is: “it will all be overgrown with grass over time.”

Which, in general, become an epigraph for this exhibition: “in the end everything will be grass again”.