The world is a fire. Life means burning - slower or faster, darker or brighter. And we can choose our own way of living.
Ekaterina Savchenko uses the language of symbols. "Every symbol", she says, "is represented by a visible object, however, it simultaneously carries within it a creative energy and information about an invisible world". The motifs of her pictures, which are full of symbols, are therefore communicative formulae, which help to approach the perusable reality which is beyond explanation and behind the world of manifestation. Ekaterina seizes upon symbols and metaphors which serve in their complex significance. The content is supported by colouring with increases the insistence of the statement. The colours are also of symbolic significance. Red, yellow and orange are the colours of life.
So dance in the fire. The world is a dream. Or does someone else dream our world? And everyday we dream new worlds, where we mix reality with personal experiments, wishes and fears. As in the paraller universe theory, every imaginable universe can (and do) exist.
Are then we the Creator? The world is a contact. Every second of life every human being lives through a new contact - between past and future, between inner self and outer world. Every moment of life we have an encounter.
An encounter with ourselves. The first thing that strikes one about Savchenko's paintings is the richness of their colors, and the second thing one notices is the peculiarly archaic character of her dynamic figures. There is an air of invincible intensity to Savchenko's expressionist pictures: despite the emotional pressure of the driven paint, the figure retains its human integrity, identity, and dignity. It signifies an ego that is the master of its own instincts, even as it given them free play - apparently complete license. Savchenko's rhapsodic figure seems to give into its drives - indeed, passionately indulges them, as though loving herself in their energy. At the same time, her aroused passions, however aroused, remain connected to - even implicitly contained by - the sturdy blackness of her body. Its inpenetrable density, symbolizing its indestructibility, condenses and concentrates their wild energy into singular force.
