Fire

Technique:
Lithography
Year:
2020

The "Fire" artwork series reflects on the world from the standpoint of the disorder of modern reality with its wars, famine, tyranny, cataclysms, and a whole range of different exploitations and inequalities.

At this time, individual well-being is always at all costs above the collective. Mutual support and respect are rare personal traits rather than social features. Today, what is happening can be described as Kali-Yuga in the Hinduism tradition, when discord and anger reign. We can only imagine what kind of the end of the era awaits us.

One of the mythological and rather prophetic endings of this scenario is fire. Fire as an imaginary but, nevertheless, quite real threat (given global warming and the possible end of all living beings) is a central figure in the exhibition. The gloom and despair that grips man before meeting inevitability borders on hopes of a global rebirth in a new form. Should we expect a moment when violence and indifference will destroy the world’s last foundations? Should we still try to find the strength to transform, fight the causes of the catastrophe, and stop the countdown to the end? The world is already on fire and, being here in its ashes, we can try to rethink our own actions. We have the opportunity to accept goodness and justice as the qualities that will make anger and enmity a thing of the past.

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire

Nina Savenko. Fire