Yaroslav Kostko

Luckily I wasn’t sick on covid-19, but the pandemic have a big influence on my way of understanding global changes in different areas of human activities.

My artistic practice doesn’t change in terms of technical implementation, I worked as usual all that time. It has influence on my perception of different kind of processes in human society and importance of live communication. In that way, the pandemic has impact the problems which I raise in my art.

With my project, I want to draw attention to certain unconscious processes that are taking place in us and have a permanent impact on our lives. There is a certain part in the personality that has an influence on the interaction with the environment and invisible to itself. It can only be traced by a reflection on interactions with the world.

Everyone has certain unconscious projections of himself and of the environment that he can only guess. They can have a powerful impact on his life and set specific vectors for development. Also, a person can “project” his or her perception of relationships with certain people and desperately cling to him or her, subconsciously not wanting to see it differently. All these mental constructs can have both positive and negative effects and significance on the individual and his or her life.

It would be good to reflect on where these projections come from and how they appear, for a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us.