Iryna Kabysh is a multidisciplinary artist from Kyiv, Ukraine.
The interseСЃtion of art and logic is the central point of her artistic interests. The nature of light of all kinds is another big thing that drives Iryna's creative process.
As an ex-painter, interior light inventor, and model, Iryna was always close to visual arts and photography. Still, it was the COVID quarantine that finally brought a camera into her hands. She started working on personal art projects after graduating from Kyiv Photography School and MYPH (Mykolayiv Young Photography School).
Selected Exhibitions:
- "New Mythologies" - group exhibition, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, 2023
- "MYPH 5 Anniversary" - virtual group exhibition, Baroque Gallery, 2023
- "Ukrainian Guernica" - Georgia and Switzerland. Co-producer and author of the light installation "Bloody Waterline", Tbilisi, Bern, 2022
- "NEW EYE" - group exhibition, New ART gallery, Kyiv, 2021
- Performance of the light installation of the "Irradiation" project as part of Lviv Fashion Week, in conjunction with the Ultra Sound Clothing project, 2018
Many years and events have passed since the world saw the first plastic package. At first, it seemed innocent.
Perhaps even comfortable and capacious.
Dirt and darkness encouraged it to breed. So from the first plastic package, mountains, and misery were formed.
Its actions and thoughts extended into algorithms.
With time, plastic packages release more and more toxicity and danger.
There was more and more of it — an influx of garbage captured the Green Planet. Basically, their actions are: to lie down, interfere... with their
passivity, occupy precious space and time, and advance the frontier in their favor. Some of it is super toxic - its ability to spread stench is
unbelievable. The first plastic packages went part of history now and for ages. Little is known about their true ingredients, so there are many
legends. There is still no single version about the origin of their occurrence. There is a hypothesis that these are alien creatures whose purpose is
to flood the Blooming Earth and turn it into a pile of garbage.
In complete darkness, on a light night, they disguise themselves as human skin
and pretend they know about humanity, simulating people's behaviors.
This is a reminder.
Garbage is always here. Near.
Among us.
Maybe even in the mirror.
Surreal Hygge
The occupiers are making terror against every Ukrainian.
Winter in a blackout in the midst of war.
What is it?
The light went out. Darkness.
And the heat?
Maybe there is still a connection?
Do we have enough water supply?
Is it for a long time?
Is it an emergency, planned outage?
It is not clear.
This is our present, multiplied by the unknown.
Surreal Hygge.
Is there anything permanent in these conditions?
We are.
We have We. And our will.
WARNING! An air alert has been announced!
Shall we go to shelter?
Morally we will.
They are playing this deadly roulette with us.
The Surreal Hygge series exists to prove in the midst of war the warmth exsists… it is with us. As well as the absurdity of life… when rockets are flying overhead. At an exceptional moments of respite, when sleep mixes with reality, and the whole year stretches like a day... in delirium, horrors, sleep and dreams.
The borderline between common sense and madness has long been mixed in the abstract fragments of the initiated “Ukrainian Guernica”. It is likely that genuine feelings, gentle warmth, enlightened tenderness, irresistible rage, sincere understanding are generated precisely in Ukraine, as well as the eternal, endless, surreal.
Oh, the light turned on!
I have to run while there is internet.
An artist in Ukraine must hurry up.
I will be on time.
