Living Water

Anna Sydorenko, a contemporary artist from Ukraine, fled her homeland, seeking refuge in the Netherlands.

Artist felt devastated, uprooted, and far from her home, work, family, friends, and her usual way of life. Unable to create, it took time for her to find the strength and creative inspiration to dive into Living Water, a new project about connection to her friends and family who were now scattered around the world. She began reaching out to her friends and acquaintances, requesting photographs of water from their current locations. People responded enthusiastically, and she soon amassed a collection of over 300 photographs.
Though divided into oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and channels, water remains a single living organism on the planet. Water knows no borders, countries, or wars. What do we see in these pictures of water? We see the people who take them. Separated by geographic, political, and mental boundaries, we are all divided by the war. But we all were and remain human beings. In fact, we see portraits of these people, their moods, and their reflections in this living water.

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