MARYNA HANDYSH
SCULPTOR
CERAMIST ARTIST
MERMAIDS
PLAY WITH THE CLOUDS
2014
55*20*20 cm
Chamotte, glaze, moss,
tempered glass
Hand sculpting
Private collection.
Exhibitions:
"Pravda B" gallery "Mermaids" Lviv 2016;
Ermilov centre "Zero among ones” Kharkiv 2015;
International Biennale of Modern Ceramics "Paradox" Opishne 2015
Main goal was to create really "live" sculpture, which needs special care and conscious attitude. I wanted to create a special connection between sculpture and its owner.
As each mermaid has moss grown on its tail, it needs care as any home plant. All sculptures are live and undergo metamorphoses thanks to moss growth and water influence.
All mermaid stands as a female archetype in its various manifestations. Each mermaid has its own water world within bulb. This water space is the prototype of the mermaid's inner depth and significance. All of the mermaids emerge into the midair world.
2016
20*20*15 cm
30*30*10 cm
25*25*20 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting
Private collection.
Exhibitions:
Museum of modern art “InSTAN” Dnipro 2018
"Tseglyna" gallery, Tseglyna art festival Kyiv 2018
Purity and joy is represented in carefree cloud game. Subconscious image appeared while speculating about conditions for saving inner harmony.
Golden creatures is an idealistic image of happy people, with light and bright spirits, who still can enjoy the marvel of the nature and life itself. They choose to enjoy everything and even common clouds. They are people who grow the sky inside.
PULSATION
(VARIATIONS)
2017
25*25*40 cm (each)
Chamotte, glaze, oxids, gold leaf
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
Private collection.
Exhibitions:
Museum of modern art “Art your create” Dnipro 2018
"Tseglyna" gallery, Tseglyna art festival Kyiv 2018
Lviv palace of arts "Ceramics 2018" Lviv 2018
This art object is the study of my sensuality at the dawn of love. What makes my veins pulsate?
The touch of my beloved person. It makes me feel the blooming inside. Little by little the buds begin to open and burst into flowers. The touch makes skin soft and tender, so the flowers can go through. Their buds pulsate and I may no longer hide it. It becomes exposed that this touch makes me bloom.
PEOPLE AND STONES
2019
40*30*30 cm(each)
Chamotte, glaze
Hand sculpting
Partially in private collection.
Exhibitions:
"Tseglyna" gallery, Tseglyna art festival Kyiv 2019
Museum of modern art “ВМОзСК” Dnipro 2019
The stone is the experience and foundation for the future. Some may use experience to build up the future, while some may consider it to be a burden. This project studies the attitude to experience.
WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE THE HEART DOESN'T GRIEVE OVER
2020
30*30*40 cm
20*20*40 cm
Chamotte, glaze, gold leaf
Hand sculpting, smoked clay
Exhibitions:
"Nu only" exhibition at MelankaArt gallery, Lviv 2021
In this work, a feminine image matured, identifying herself with the Gorgon, who among her snakes - doubts - entwined herself like vines, and this is actually her place, she is like a flower among these thoughts. But she carefully closes her eyes because everything she looks deeply into may open up for her in an unexpected way. Therefore, amid these anxieties, she awaits a messenger - a defender who is not like her with his otherworldly otherness, but at the same time permeated with flowers that break through his arrangements, and which are so similar to the network nature of what awaits him.
For me, these are different worlds, dissimilar and similar at the same time, but together they form a cohesive whole.
CONNECTION
2014
15*15*2 cm (each)
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, template.
Partially in private collection.
Communication as the mean of interaction with the world and mean to discover it. Mean to interact with yourself. Situation-dependent communication may occur via language, touch and mental connection. Like an invisible thread it connects everything.
COCOONS
2020
20*20*45 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids.
Augmented reality.
Hand sculpting.
Exhibitions:
The artwork was presented at the quarantine event "Lichen" in Chernihiv 2020 and at the MSUMC "Immunity" in Lutsk 2020.
This piece arose from reflections on my future. It is a snapshot of my current state. I sometimes have doubts about continuing to work with sculpture because I don't know if I will have the resources to realize my ideas.
I took a pile of sketches and sculpted small three-dimensional sketches, which I placed inside cocoons. I fired them in this state, thus preserving my thoughts. This artwork now hangs as unresolved questions for myself. The sketches are preserved inside the cocoons (they may be partially damaged in there). To see them, one would have to break the cocoons, thereby destroying the formed shell.
I will keep these sketches for better times when I feel like I can realize my ideas. Will that time come? Will there be opportunities? Will it still be relevant in a few years? In ten years? Maybe I will even move away from working with material, and these cocoons will remain sealed? Maybe I won't break them later, and what will that person understand then? And if I reveal the contents of these works after some time, how will I feel? Will I want to bring them to life? Could this become a new wave in my creativity?
In creating these works, I wanted to use augmented reality (as modern digital and software technologies fill my life). When a mobile device is pointed at the graphics on one of the cocoons, a list of my first graphic sketches of small sculptural forms that are stored inside the cocoons appears. And again, the question arises: should I continue to develop along with technology or remain on the periphery of modern life?
GROWING THE WINGS
2020
10*10*20 cm (each)
Chamotte, glaze, oxids.
Hand sculpting.
This project explores the process of crystallization of a dream. It is about dreams and aspirations, about trying to make the desired a reality. To take flight. It is about the process of forming one's own path. Some have many aspirations, while others hone in on one big one. We are all different, and our approaches are different, but the process is the same - growing.
As a result, a series of figures were created that reflect different states. Among them: a figure with the necessary number of wings, but they are not fully formed and are quite small, making it impossible to take flight; a figure with one large wing like a shield; or a human-wing hybrid. Together, they create an interactive space for the viewer. This work is constantly evolving and unlimited by time, as these images arise and manifest in various variations.
