About Olena Zhukova

In my art, I explore what is difficult to bear, difficult to look at and sometimes almost impossible to put into words.

I try not to repress or gloss over what is frightening, but rather to transform it into something I can engage with – something I can look at, perhaps even find beautiful. In doing so, the uncanny is not lost. It remains, changes its form and becomes part of something new.

For me, art is a way of processing experiences, of integrating the incompatible and of giving the terrible a place in a world in which I want to live.