Lost Beauty
Solo exhibition in Kyiv in collaboration with Maria Vasilyeva's project "Dreams of War" at the artist-run space Kut
Curated by Daria Zhuravel
2025
Lost Beauty is a project that explores beauty as a process of recovery after loss. Emerging from the personal experience of living between Ukraine and Germany, the project reflects on transformation through practices of repair, memory preservation, and the search for wholeness after destruction.
The exhibition brings together graphic works, ceramic objects, photographic documentation, and text, forming an intimate space for reflection on wartime realities, inner transformations, and new ways of perceiving beauty.
“The practice of careful reassembling is an attempt to repair without returning to an original state. It is about creating another form of wholeness—one that preserves the memory of loss,”
— Aglaya
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world it´s a sad and beautiful world
LOST BEAUTY
sad and beautiful world
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A-Z
A
a bridge, if glued, will not stand
art is the place where I haven’t been yet
B
big bed
blood dried
blue chair
breaking session
broken:
broken and then glued:
burned:
D
dishes, glasses, shards
dreamed that he woke up in the same bed with a horse
E
easier to breathe
explosions
F
face of marble
farewell picnic
feeling of being heard
frets above the ground. frets below the ground
G
green/white/brown glass
H
heart has already been
L
lactose-free milk
little notes
LOST BEAUTY
O
once, to be there, to be them, to be with them
one of my sadnesses
our wildness
own sequence, pattern, own interests
P
preserve time
S
sad and beautiful world
so easy and at the same time so hard
spilled:
T
trust (unsure)
W
Wagner
water of the Mediterranean Sea
Text created in collaboration with exhibition curator Daria Zhuravel