My name is Lyubov Matyunina, I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. I want my work to speak with people through the intuitive patterns of the soul — to share the magic of this world, with all its dramas and joys.

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In my practice I explore urgent themes of the contemporary through an anthropological approach, unpacking representations of myths from the past. I create alternative realities and mythologies that touch upon the body of 'reality' but transform it by injecting it with fantasies, dreams, humour and a sense of the absurd. I juxtapose rituals, masks, costumes, textile and carpets, folk stories and religious traditions with the Internet and social media as a means of understanding and rethinking the contemporary.

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I see my role as an artist to mythologize the world of today and to create new meaning by radically imagining it. We are living in a time of meaning loss, when ancient myths no longer meet the demands of the times — and new ones are still forming. Each project I make is a ritual in itself, an act of transformation. The masks I make, the costumes I sew, the carpets I weave, the films I shoot — they are all tools to see what is really happening beneath the surface of things, and to imagine something truer.