Beata Korn and Viktor Melnychuk. Cards, Stone and Fire

The exhibition by the two artists from Uzhhorod presents three central images: stone, playing cards, and fire. Stone embodies material memory. Playing cards symbolize chance, fate, and the human attempt to decipher them. Fire represents transformation and the point of no return.

These images emerge from personal experiences: collecting stones by the river and childhood memories associated with playing cards.

Beata Korn combines natural stones with ceramic forms. In her works, the stones do not appear as a burden; instead, they are embraced by the ceramic structures, held in a fragile yet enduring balance. This is not "a stone on one's soul," but rather a stone that has found its place.

Viktor Melnychuk presents his series "Cards of War" — porcelain playing cards that appear to be drawn with a blue ballpoint pen. It is a deck that can neither be played with nor used for fortune-telling because its familiar system of symbols has been disrupted: suits, face cards, and meanings no longer correspond. The card ceases to be a gaming tool and instead becomes a testimony to an era in which the rules of the game have lost their meaning.

In this exhibition, fire is more than the technological process of firing ceramics. It becomes a symbol of trial and transformation, through which soft matter gains strength, while personal experience acquires imagery and form.

The exhibition opens on July 21 at 6:00 PM.

The exhibition will run until August 16.

Admission is free. All artworks are available for purchase.