Yevgen Prymachenko - Generation

In this plastic composition, I address the archetype of fatherhood and the continuity of life, which are some of the oldest themes of world art.

It was important for me to develop a plastic language based on generalized forms, with each element contributing to a multi-level semantic structure. The rejection of individual features allows each and every one of us to recognize their own experience—of childhood, care, love or loss—in these images.

The massive figure of an adult is envisioned as a kind of spatial dome; their gesture physically envelops and protects the child. In this work, I engage in an important dialogue with the plastic tradition of Henry Moore, who discovered the universal language of humanism after World War II through the theme of mother and child. I continue this conversation through the experience of modern-day Ukraine. War, life under shelling with a family, a constant sense of threat inevitably change the semantics of this image: an embrace is no longer just a symbol of love, becoming a symbol of protection, a boundary between life and death.

The past, the present and the future coexist in one plastic gesture. Life that is passed down from generation to generation forms a chain that even the war cannot break.