• ANNA PERZHAN

    (1987)
  • Сonceptual
    artist

Art has become a visual language through which I express meaning and communicate with the world, giving form to internal states. The understanding of one’s identity is something that only time can reveal. My work is a personal journey and a contemplation of the existence of the self within the greater system of the cosmos, and of what lies beyond the limits of the visible. Life — as a process of acquiring knowledge, undergoing experiences, extracting lessons, and transforming through them — is, in itself, a form of art. It is a world in which each event holds significance, and the very process is infinite in its unfolding.

What resonates most deeply with me is the process of sensing and becoming aware — the opportunity to serve as a bridge between the inner world and external reality. In my artistic practice, I explore darkness, chaos, fear, and their counterparts — joy, desire, and order — and how these opposing forces shape us and bring about inner transformation. Darkness and shadows, in this context, also hold intrinsic value — as essential elements of existence that carry the potential for meaning and transmutation, rebirth and transition to the site of the light.

For me, art is a practice of self-inquiry. I am drawn to the exploration of the subconscious, to analyzing fundamental human emotions and their origins, seeking balance between liminal states, matter and emptiness, and capturing the emergence of absolute beauty at the point where self and space intersect. Confronting our shadows and accepting them as a necessary condition for growth and transformation allows us to access hidden reserves of wholeness. Perhaps this is my inner call — a quiet appeal to liberate the human soul from the bondage of fear. For true acceptance of the unknown requires genuine courage.

We are a process — a continuous movement from birth to death, from ignorance to awareness, from uncertainty to clarity.

My choice of abstraction reflects a commitment to reinterpreting reality — to conveying narrative through emotion and sensory experience. My intention is not to provide definitive answers, but to create a space for vision. To see — truly see — is difficult. As is truly listening. But within that difficulty lies a certain beauty and the possibility of perceiving reality beyond the shadows on the wall. Everything emerged from nothingness, took shape through chaos, and became part of an infinite process of becoming. “Know that, by knowing which, everything becomes known.” UPANISHAD

«And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed.»

«Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.»

John Steinbeck, «East of Eden» (1952)