NEW PERUN
— THE GOD OF
THUNDER AND WAR
The works resemble icons depicting saints to be worshipped. In our time, too, there are people who imagine themselves to be the thunderbolts, the arbiters of fate — and crowds go to bow to them, to kiss the heel and see the newborn deity with their own eyes.
triptych · oil on textile · 180 × 95 cm each · 2023
01 “New Perun: It”180 × 95 cm
On the first piece we still see the image of a man — asexual, without specific features, so anyone can hide behind these clothes. But a person’s actions and choices have a profound impact on his spiritual well-being. 
02 “New Perun: Chaos”180 × 95 cm
A state of decay, the loss of the living strings of the human soul. The moment of chaos is stretched into infinity; the geometry that appears seems to offer solid ground, but no — the self-destruction comes from within. 
03 “New Perun: Idol”180 × 95 cm
On the third work we no longer see a man but a god, an idol — the thing he so aspired to become. Here he is in all his glory: come and worship him. Was it worth changing your soul for a piece of dead stone? Only from HIS mouth is the truth heard, only HE knows who is a friend and who is an enemy, and HE will not quench his thirst for blood in the holy war against the infidels.
A person who imagines himself to be god loses touch with this world; the soul we are called to protect perishes, and the lifeless body is transformed into stone. Now it is nothing — just a dead piece of rock. He is an idol like an ancient pagan deity, a stone Perun. Idols need to be brought down.
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The triptych is conceived as one piece and travels together; it needs about 3,5 m of wall. WRITE TO ME → Margarita@suliaeva.art · (+381) 64 351 3136 ← back to all paintings