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Contemporary Art
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Mariana Panchuk Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine Mariana's artworks are always meaningful. This is a distinctive feature of her art. Naturally, each of the drawings has its own significance for the author. Nevertheless, the viewer is given a possibility of finding their own association and freedom to realize their own perception. Very often in the same figure a separate person finds his/her own outlines of the images that are totally opposite to the vision of another individual. Thus, her works reveal what lies in the subconscious mind of the beholder, as a reflection of the inner world, not only the artist's but also the viewer's.
An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator
a reflection of the inner world, not only the artist's but also the viewer's: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
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Adressing the viewers to a multilayered visual experience, artist Mariana Panchuk's work provides the viewers with an intense, immersive experience: her works that we'll be discussing in the following pages, are always meaningful and successfully attempt to trigger the viewers' perceptual parameters walking them through the liminal area in which inner world and perceptual outside reality find a consistent point of convergence. One of the most impressive aspects of Panchuk's work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of revealing what lies in the subconscious mind of the beholder, as
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Hello Mariana and welcome to Peripheral ARTeries: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted background. You have a solid formal training and after having graduated with a Bachelor's Degree you as a pattern and graphic designer at the printing complex: how did these experiences influence the way you currently conceive your works? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the notion of beauty? 23