The artist transforms the usual topoi of the “psychic map”, where consciousness is a city, the preconscious is a forest, the unconscious is a dungeon. Seraphim creatures live everywhere.
They not only refer to archaic images, but are totems themselves. The symbiosis of allegory and direct metaphors allows the viewer to get closer to the artist’s Unconscious. Formally, objects are a combination of archaic forms and post- modern meaning, which each recipient sees for himself.
The series is home to urban, forest and underground creatures. They are revealed through their own topoi. Urban creatures are the guardians of consciousness, sensations and experiences. Forest ones serve
as guardians of the experience and memory of any living organism and are agents of communication between urban and underground creatures. The unconscious, and therefore spooky, Dungeon is home to guardians of primitive instincts, emotions and memories. They are dangerous for forest and urban but necessary. Everyone tries not to see them, but they exist. Just like the fears of each of us.
The artist allows us to open not just a new chapter in the fairy- tale world, but also immerse ourselves in our own psyche through the macabre post- irony of cute and sometimes repulsive creatures. Serafima works in the technique of intuitive search for form, forcing the Unconscious, which is almost dormant in the modern ratiocentric world, to open.
Alyona Dyatko