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Ganna Ki's artworks deal with themes of healing and the (sub)conscious. Through painting, sculpture and performance, the artist searches for non-figurative expressions of deeper truths, a collective epistemology that connects all people.
In her current series "Serpent of Eternity", created during an artist residency in the Black Forest, Ganna Ki explores the concept of creation. The green landscape, mountains and dense forests inspired her to create small sculptures and large canvases. The title refers to the Aztec serpent god Quetzalcoatl (known to the Maya as Kukulkan), who created the world in traditional history. In this series, the artist tells the story of a girl who travels to an ancient ocean world in a lucid dream. Here she meets the feathered serpent and hears stories from Quetzalcoatl about a world that does not yet exist. Her paintings and sculptures in this series are dedicated to this ancient ocean world. She similarly addresses landscapes and dream worlds in her 2022 series "Ocean of Unknown". These works were created intuitively as she painted flowing black and white images during a ritualized dance performance.
“My experience with your works is that they stop time. That you lose yourself in them and are drawn into another world, a world that reflects itself to you.”
(private collector)
In 2023, during artist residencies in the Czech Republic and Poland, she developed two performances based on the Ukrainian folklore figure Beregynya, a protective spirit associated with river and forest spirits. In these dance performances, Ganna Ki constructed Beregynya sculptures from local, natural materials and set them on fire while reciting mantras, transforming them into prayers for the healing and protection of nature.
