Amniotic Black Sea
2025, Digital format , Conceptual art
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In this project for Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Arts, I combine NASA images of the Black Sea and Crimea — territories marked by occupation and deep trauma — with medical imagery of amniotic fluid, the environment where new life begins. This layering of two scales — planetary and intimately human - creates a parallel between the body of the Earth and the human body.
The sea appears as amniotic fluid: a space of potential beginnings, yet one that can be poisoned or disrupted by war. Here Crimea is part of a maternal body, violated yet still carrying the potential for life.
The concept emerged from observing the Crimean Peninsula through aerial and digital surveillance after its occupation and annexation by Russia. This distant gaze — at once detached and painfully intimate — evokes the sensation of floating inside an amniotic sea: unable to intervene, yet deeply connected to what is unfolding. The Black Sea becomes a threshold of vision and memory, where geopolitical violence fuses with the primal image of life suspended in fluid.
The diptych consists of two media images:
- The first image — an X-ray of my father's inflamed lungs, into which a NASA satellite image of Crimea in July has been integrated. The image is deliberately left unprocessed, preserving its raw, documentary quality.
- Country Ukraine
- Year 2025
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Kryvych is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist born in Kyiv, who studied art in both Kyiv and Madrid. Anna explores the mechanisms of human interaction with the world through artistic practice. Her works reveal deeper layers of reality, truth, and existence. She investigates themes of dehumanization, estrangement from nature, and immersion into artificial constructs that distort our connection to the essence of life. By creating visual narratives that resonate with philosophical and apocalyptic concepts, Anna seeks to uncover the hidden forces shaping human experience — particularly through the lens of presence and the exploration of extreme existential boundaries.
Working across painting, sculpture, and object-based installation, she reflects on the shifting boundary between the real and the simulated, the living body and its artificial extinction. Her recent works engage with themes of posthuman ecology, chromatic surfaces, and speculative anatomies — including chrome-finished animals, robots, and hybrid beings suspended between evolution and erasure. She often incorporates vacuum-sealed objects, metallic textures, and artificial skins to explore how presence can become a trace, and how nature begins to perform itself as image.
Kryvych’s artistic inquiry is guided by questions such as:
– What happens to corporeality in a world where everything can be copied?
– Can art still function as a site of resistance in a culture of seamless simulation?
– And is true desire still possible when experience is endlessly reproduced?
Her work has been exhibited in Madrid, Zurich, and the Museum of the History of Kyiv, as well as in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Ukraine and Europe. Recent exhibitions include The Sea (Stable Gallery, Vienna), Fragments (Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv), Please softer (Octo Gallery, Kyiv), and Spanish Group Exhibition (Galeria Lanza Art, Madrid).
Kryvych’s works are part of private collections in Ukraine, Spain, and Switzerland.
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