Kateryna Lysovenko

Little Rights are paintings on canvas, which metaphorically reflect natural processes: they breathe, divide, and go through life cycle metamorphoses. In this way, Kateryna Lysovenko focuses on the inherent, universal ‘rights’ of bodies.

The artist points out that the war and the rise of right-wing political forces around the world have made murder, violence and control over body constant and directed at all living beings. Against this backdrop, the necessity arises to emphasise the properties of any living organism that should not be alienated by anyone, as they are given by nature. Paintings manifest the rights to life, reproduction, vision, absorption (of food or other creatures), and protection. The sea, which appears in one of the works, is linked by Lysovenko to the right to miracle and emergence of anything.

The rounded canvases seem to have become enormous cells or organisms that endlessly reproduce themselves. The processes of existence that ideologies try to subordinate, define their course, in this work are eternal and primary, and therefore divine. Cells and organisms move on their own and remain uncontrolled by any external forces.