Svetlana Gonchar
Artist statement
The world is woven of contradictions, permeated with paradoxes.
Contradiction can be seen as a conflictual interaction of opposites and as a clash of mutually exclusive requirements for the same object. If you do not notice and resolve the contradiction in time, it will grow into a serious disagreement, into a dispute, and then into a conflict.
That is why many people do not like contradictions, try not to notice them, ignore them or, even worse, fight them, trying to make everything the same.
However, many philosophers, including Kant and Hegel, believed that contradictions are a necessary stage and result of cognition of the world, they lead forward and stimulate development. In addition, cognitive psychologists argue that contradictions and paradoxes are especially attractive to human consciousness, the brain likes to solve riddles and find solutions to complex problems.
Contradictions need not be feared, there is nothing scary or dangerous about them. I encourage you to perceive them not as an insurmountable obstacle, but as an opportunity to see the world holistically, to perceive it fully, and not categorically one-sided, as most people are used to. Contradictions are a chance to see the world as it is. In the process of working with contradiction, to create something brilliant, which was inaccessible with black and white perception of the world.
Contradiction can be seen as a conflictual interaction of opposites and as a clash of mutually exclusive requirements for the same object. If you do not notice and resolve the contradiction in time, it will grow into a serious disagreement, into a dispute, and then into a conflict.
That is why many people do not like contradictions, try not to notice them, ignore them or, even worse, fight them, trying to make everything the same.
However, many philosophers, including Kant and Hegel, believed that contradictions are a necessary stage and result of cognition of the world, they lead forward and stimulate development. In addition, cognitive psychologists argue that contradictions and paradoxes are especially attractive to human consciousness, the brain likes to solve riddles and find solutions to complex problems.
Contradictions need not be feared, there is nothing scary or dangerous about them. I encourage you to perceive them not as an insurmountable obstacle, but as an opportunity to see the world holistically, to perceive it fully, and not categorically one-sided, as most people are used to. Contradictions are a chance to see the world as it is. In the process of working with contradiction, to create something brilliant, which was inaccessible with black and white perception of the world.
The time of dichotomous perception of contradictions is over, when they are either ignored or fiercely fought with them, destroying what does not fit into one's own picture of the world.
The era of revealing contradictions and their successful resolution is ahead. An era where the ability to find and accept contradictions, to work constructively with them, using their powerful potential for the formation of a holistic multifaceted world becomes a necessary condition for the formation of a mature personality.
The era of revealing contradictions and their successful resolution is ahead. An era where the ability to find and accept contradictions, to work constructively with them, using their powerful potential for the formation of a holistic multifaceted world becomes a necessary condition for the formation of a mature personality.