About event
The project consists of two parts: a series of contemporary paintings and Neo-Byzantine icons created using the ancient technique of plav (layering). These two components engage in a dialogue — like two voices harmonizing on a single theme.
The contemporary sacred images reflect the artist's intuitive search for a painterly language to manifest the spiritual, ultimately expressed through pure form, light, and the rhythm of space. Geometry, as a compositional device, becomes an instrument of vision — a way to reveal the order and harmony inherent in the world’s foundation. The circle, the square, and the triangle are imprints of the universal laws that permeate existence, signs of a divine order.
The icons presented alongside create a living context, recalling deep-rooted Christian traditions while opening them to contemporary perception. Executed in the plav technique, characterized by its layered application of pigment and the slow emergence of light from within, these works embody time — a time of presence. In proximity to contemporary painting, they are revealed anew: tradition ceases to be an archive and becomes a living conversation. Together, these works bridge the gap between canon and the personal experience of seeking truth.
This exhibition takes on profound relevance in times of destruction, loss of meaning, and deep exhaustion, when familiar landmarks vanish and new ones are yet to be found. "Geometry of Light" offers no ready-made answers. Instead, it offers a space of silence where one can pause. A space where a modern visual language speaks of the eternal, wordlessly and sincerely. It is a place to ask: what is the light that does not merely oppose darkness, but transforms it? Perhaps the very attempt to ask this question is already a step toward the answer.
Here, form becomes prayer, light becomes a choice, and geometry becomes an attempt to piece oneself back together within a new reality.
