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xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/revue_argument\/\">@revue_argument<\/a> <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/9\/\">#9<\/a> about my <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/flowersorexplosions\/\">#flowersorexplosions<\/a> series.<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf38\ud83d\udca5<br \/>\n<strong><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iryna_belan\/\">@iryna_belan<\/a>:<\/strong> Nowadays it is trendy to talk about storytelling, about creating a narrative in painting. What role do you assign to storytelling in your work? Why, it seems to me, for the first time in your work, did you develop a powerful linguistic component?<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcac<br \/>\n<strong><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kuznetsova_artist\/\">@kuznetsova_artist<\/a>:<\/strong> Thank you for noticing that. I remember that in my interview with Revue_Argument in 2022, I said that I didn\u2019t know what my art would be like after the full-scale invasion, but it would have to change, because everything had changed, including me. I can\u2019t be in my bubble anymore; I feel like a part of Ukraine, my home, culture, and loved ones. And when our antagonists are trying to destroy all of this, I simply cannot ignore it and remain silent. I want to tell the world about it, despite the pain and difficulty of such a narrative. In the spring of 2022, when the Russian attack on us was so unexpected, and the situation was critical, I had to act quickly and felt that I could not remain silent: I gave many oral and written interviews to journalists, TV channels, platforms, bloggers, and art critics about the events that were happening right next door. I think I\u2019ve learned how to tell stories since then. Art is an even better way, although it is a slower one, to tell the truth to the world and express your position.<\/p>\n<p>And, indeed, in the Flowers or Explosions series, each painting is a special story, because it was created literally in the middle of the war, when everything was very acute, because we all closely followed what was happening in Ukraine every day&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\nRead the whole text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gRdZWAnLiJry3HppFBYDF-3-SxZH54KUCsToLj2zVoE\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gRdZWAnLiJry3HppFBYDF-3-SxZH54KUCsToLj2zVoE\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Alena Kuznetsova by Irina Belan for @revue_argument #9 about my #flowersorexplosions series. \ud83c\udf38\ud83d\udca5 @iryna_belan: Nowadays it is trendy to talk about storytelling, about creating a narrative in<a href=\"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?p=16112\">&#8230;Watch More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[966,973,838,509,752,837,964,934,887,1167,984,1166,1168],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog","tag-argument","tag-flowers-or-explosions","tag-france","tag-interview","tag-mushroom","tag-paris","tag-published","tag-relations-with-the-image","tag-887","tag-1167","tag-984","tag-1166","tag-1168","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18186,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions\/18186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}