✌Pairs of palms held in different gestures – from prayer to restraint, Lyudmyla sculpted and sculpted. The artist’s hands are very textured. They seem to be deprived of a protective layer – the bare structure of a huge number of muscles, veins and tendons.
✌ The artist says that her grandmother’s hands became a vivid memory – a sacred prototype for her sculptures. It is their image that comes to mind when Lyudmyla thinks about the image of hands. Hands – tactile. During the lockdown we were forbidden to shake hands, touch the hands of strangers, it is desirable to wear rubber gloves. And that’s the only way we understood – how important tactility of hands is for us. A handshake is a symbol of trust, and different touches can say more than words.
✌ Hands – eloquent. Hands tell who a person is. The musician and the gardener have different hands. Mother`s and father`s hands have different languages. And there are gestures – they can say so much and they will succinctly convey what there are not enough words.
✌At the personal exhibition “Language of Hands” Lyudmyla Davydenko will present new ceramic sculptures and paintings in her characteristic style, which she once called “Rhizomes” (in the biology of plant rhizome growth).
