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ANCIENT GREECE WRITTINGS & WINGED FIGURES
She notably studied The Metamorphoses and Art of Love by Ovid, as well as the thought of Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, known for his thought based on constant change and the dialectic of opposites.
She has been inspired by stories from Greek mythology, especially those involving winged figures.
SOLARIS > ICARUS & DAEDALUS | CODEX
In this series, several themes are covered, overlapping and intertwining around SOLARIS, which is the masterpiece and the first artwork, created in 2015. +
She has given a special place to the theme of the maze. To bring these layered narratives into visual form, she used laser cutting, burning into the cardboard to plot and inscribe the blueprint matrix she had designed.
The geometric visual poetry of the style resembles the enigmatic symbolic cryptography of a codex — a language to be deciphered, compelling us to reflect on existential questioning.
THE WINGS OF THE DESIRE > LOVE
Her work is infused with the same allegorical spirit as her favorite Berlin film, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders. "I like the meditave tone of the film." It reflects the angels’ perspective—silent, invisible observers of human life—and speaks of the beauty and power of love, the magnetic force that moves us deeply. +
Her work is imbued with spirituality, as well as the notions of time and emotion.
The French Plastian - Designer Virginie Knysak make these themes colliding in the tableaux,
giving them a unique oniric charactere and reflecting her artistic stance.
She uses a visual dichocomy: clear lines get blurred by the treatement she gaves to the materials,
creating a tension between strenght and fragility.
FROM CRAFT TO STRUCTURAL LANGUAGE
Virginie Knysak’s work is rooted in the French decorative arts tradition, with a strong attention to proportion, precision and material.
Trained at the Camondo school in Paris, she progressively developed a visual language centered on geometry, structure and symbolic systems.
Motion of nature - Paths of life & Emotions | Cinetic energy