About Ksenia Shinkovskaya

Scientists have found that modern people experience a feeling of joy and happiness much less often than in the old days, and catastrophically less than archaic peoples like the Pirahã Indians. I am looking for sources of joy, both large-scale and unusual, and completely simple, everyday. In my work, I try to remember forgotten entry points to happiness and discover new ones. Each of my sculptures is a call to the inner child of a person. By estranging everyday impressions and incidents I extend the string from the ancient artists who painted petroglyphs through a dialogue with Bosch, Haeckel and surrealists to my viewer, inviting him to play his own melody. I can show human a direction that is guaranteed to experience joy, or become a little happier. And I want to give this opportunity to a wider audience of people.