The work Ayna Pirkuliyeva will present at Roots: BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media Final Exhibition started out as an emotional response to visiting Maasai Mara and confronting the stunning wild animals of Africa in their natural habitat.
"The first instinctive reaction to this powerful experience was to capture it on video, to preserve it and later share with others. As the experience was settling in, there came a desire to mimic it through the medium closest to me - painting - to acknowledge the purity, beauty, nostalgia and sadness that the animals are irreversibly going extinct. As the emotions grew to become reflections, there came a realization that paintings and video are yet other ways of distorting our perception of the wildlife, which is one of the reasons
the planet is losing it."
Read more about Ayna's and other exhibitor's work on our website here [ Ссылка ]
Video produced by Tasya Nafigina
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