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Curator: Yevhen Karas. «Atelier Karas» Gallery, Kyiv
«Envy for Reality», author: Vlada Ralko
"I have always been
attracted by the differences between external, the visible and
something that is hidden Since the observable is usually associated
with obvious, it would be logical to look for manifestations happening
inside, right in the visible. Despite habit of looking in a mirror for
the smallest ions of what is developing deep inside of me, Tie to time
such logic starts seeming too fragile.
In my hunting for wholeness, I always lose track of time, forgetting that real wholeness is possible only in the past, and the external form is deceptive; moreover, it is dead. The most expressive manifestations of the external are nothing more than a phantom. The real always ripens at a distance from the obvious or that which is obviously logical. What seems to be unconditional cannot be proved logically because irrational mytical confidence in the faultlessness of common sense is in fact completely unfounded. Logic is constantly forced to overcome itself. Sometimes it seems that its realness in general comes from nothing, from emptiness.
My own method of analyzing a pictured object seems o me rather logical, or, more likely, one that reflects ny own efforts of searching for objective laws that eveal all the erroneousness in what is considered | to be a rule. I start to develop an image from the most banal form or gesture, then I destroy that part where justification and logicality make it too weak; then I wander for awhile inside, under fragments and finally, being exhausted, I reconstruct a form, rebuild it again.
Sometimes what I picture can seem to be something that has no single reason to exist at all. Most often my attention is drawn to accidents. In its own turn, an accident recognizes its own accidental nature as a true reason. The unimportant external thing, deprived of any features of justification, becomes important.
I strive to remove everything that is justified by logic, because the natural external usually does not explain anything, on the contrary, it only disguises the most interesting..."
Vlada Ralko. Kyiv, 2008
In my hunting for wholeness, I always lose track of time, forgetting that real wholeness is possible only in the past, and the external form is deceptive; moreover, it is dead. The most expressive manifestations of the external are nothing more than a phantom. The real always ripens at a distance from the obvious or that which is obviously logical. What seems to be unconditional cannot be proved logically because irrational mytical confidence in the faultlessness of common sense is in fact completely unfounded. Logic is constantly forced to overcome itself. Sometimes it seems that its realness in general comes from nothing, from emptiness.
My own method of analyzing a pictured object seems o me rather logical, or, more likely, one that reflects ny own efforts of searching for objective laws that eveal all the erroneousness in what is considered | to be a rule. I start to develop an image from the most banal form or gesture, then I destroy that part where justification and logicality make it too weak; then I wander for awhile inside, under fragments and finally, being exhausted, I reconstruct a form, rebuild it again.
Sometimes what I picture can seem to be something that has no single reason to exist at all. Most often my attention is drawn to accidents. In its own turn, an accident recognizes its own accidental nature as a true reason. The unimportant external thing, deprived of any features of justification, becomes important.
I strive to remove everything that is justified by logic, because the natural external usually does not explain anything, on the contrary, it only disguises the most interesting..."
Vlada Ralko. Kyiv, 2008
