"Several Worlds Later"
Project for The Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art

Size: 16×3m

January 2024

Spray cans

Somari is a contemporary futurist artist whose visual art style is an offshoot of postgraffiti. The artist's current artistic practices are centred around the creation of a plot and mythology of her own universe. This fantasy world is the author's assumption of the emergence of a new civilisation that could hypothetically develop as part of a singular scenario after the end of the world. The story is centred on a technologically advanced civilisation and a unique flora. The narrative delves into the conflict between the attempts of intelligent beings to dominate and control nature by playing the role of creator and the preservation of culture, roots, and identity. Each subsequent project will outline storylines and add new details to this world.

The canvases presented on the Enter art platform are dedicated to the research scenes of these fictional characters. Visually, they look like a frozen frame of a moving visual element. Through these scenes, the artist wants to reveal the context and introduce the viewer to the prerequisites of the author's narrative, that is, it will be a kind of prequel.

The following plot develops on the canvases: three characters, researchers, study a strange flora that has evolved, having grown metal parts, due to the threat of the onset of technological civilisation. A fourth mysterious character, who is a reincarnation of the artist's most famous image outside of this story, watches the events unfold. These scenes immerse the viewer in the mythology of the virtual world and are the beginning of a story, the beginning of a great exploration, an adventure, and a reflection on the relationship between technology and nature, between an intelligent being and the environment.

In these paintings, viewers can see only a two-dimensional image of the multidimensional world of the distant future. The image contains controlled errors in volumes and perspective, due to the fact that the laws of perspective that we are used to do not work in this world, so this is how all attempts to visualise multidimensionality on a flat object will look like.

The title: ‘Several Worlds Away’ refers to the explanation of when and how such a fantastic and unlike anything else world could exist.

Somari is a contemporary futurist artist whose visual art style is an offshoot of postgraffity. The artist's current practices are centred around the creation of a plot and mythology of her own universe. This fantasy world is the author's assumption of the emergence of a new civilisation that could hypothetically develop as part of a singular scenario after the end of the world. The story is centred on a technologically advanced civilisation and a unique flora. The narrative delves into the conflict between the attempts of intelligent beings to dominate and control nature by playing the role of creator and the preservation of culture, roots, and identity. Each subsequent project will outline storylines and add new details to this world.

The canvases presented on the Enter art platform are dedicated to the research scenes of these fictional characters. Visually, they look like a frozen frame of a moving visual element. Through these scenes, the artist wants to reveal the context and introduce the viewer to the prerequisites of the author's narrative, that is, it will be a kind of prequel.

The following plot develops on the canvases: three characters, researchers, study a strange flora that has evolved, having grown metal parts, due to the threat of the onset of technological civilisation. A fourth mysterious character, who is a reincarnation of the artist's most famous image outside of this story, watches the events unfold. These scenes immerse the viewer in the mythology of the virtual world and are the beginning of a story, the beginning of a great exploration, an adventure, and a reflection on the relationship between technology and nature, between an intelligent being and the environment.

In these paintings, viewers can see only a two-dimensional image of the multidimensional world of the distant future. The image contains controlled errors in volumes and perspective, due to the fact that the laws of perspective that we are used to do not work in this world, so this is how all attempts to visualise multidimensionality on a flat object will look like.

The title: "Several Worlds Later" refers to the explanation of when and how such a fantastic and unlike anything else world could exist.