Personal Space
Xenia Petrovska
The following photographs captured a solitary state of being of passers-by whom I have met. The moment of human presence in the self-affiliation which isn't violated by anyone else. Each character has its own room in which he or she seems to merge with the background by being captured in a frozen posture. The possibility of human's inside harmony with oneself, created by the peculiar charm of solitude. Maybe this state of being helps us to cognize and evaluate ourselves, or to comprehend our own significant value. It also can help us to view ourselves from the outside.
Xenia Petrovska (b. 1988) is a photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied at the MYPH art school and at the Kyiv School of Photography. Xenia's works are rooted in the mysterious and even slightly surreal atmospheres created by light and color. She took part in numerous group exhibitions in Ukraine in Europe. Xenia was selected as a Fresh Eyes European talent 2021 by GUP Magazine. Member of Ukrainian Women Photographers Organisation.
At the origins
In my project At the origins I establish dreamlike and mysterious sceneries of my native village by examining the concept of home and belonging. The vision of home, which is rooted in my childhood memories, is some kind of personification of the landscape, where you definitely will return in reality or in your memory.These photographs exhibit familiar sights of my childhood. They remind me a dream which helps to reveal the meaning of a homeland as a peculiar microcosm of a human being; a homeland as a sacral place in our consciousness.