Is there a moment when an artist’s creative journey begins? How do we look at childhood drawings when we know their creators went on to become artists? And is the freedom of childhood imagination something we return to throughout our lives?

The confidence, the complete trust in the process, and the curiosity about life found in children’s drawings - are these signs of naivety and a lack of experience, or of true freedom? How do these lines, themes, textures, and colors - these initial forays of a child’s imagination- shape what comes later? Do they influence the motifs that follow a person in adulthood and eventually form the basis of their visual language? Is there a correlation between the creative freefall of your childhood self and the person you become as an adult?

This exhibition is dedicated to the third anniversary of the death of Dmytro Pashchuk (Harmash), founder of the "Svitlo" gallery for emerging artists in Lviv. He was killed in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine. The loss of a close friend and colleague prompted the Svitlo gallery team to create an exhibition that reflects on eternity, specifically, on childhood as a form of "physical eternity" that we experience during our lives: a state where time stretches infinitely, and summer exists as an eternity of its own.

A collaboration between Toloka Gallery and Gallery Svitlo.

Artists:
Volodymyr Semkiv
Olha Kuziura
Serhii Savchenk
Dzvinka Zahaiska
Markiian Teplyi

Curator: Olena Polishchuk

Poster typeface by Yarema Smetana (son of artist Olha Kuziura)