Margarita Ivy

Margarita Ivy (1998) born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, lives and works in Prague. She is currently finishing her education at the studio of Intermedia Art of Michal Pěchouček at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She works with death and reflects on it based on childhood memories and her own symbolism.

The metamorphosis of her strongest childhood memories-en-counters with death, into tenderly sacred, posthumous animal stories became a necessary means of self-preservation, a process as natural to her as death had become. She carefully dips the animals into a formaldehyde bath and gradually deposits them into airy epoxy environments. It is precisely in that toxic, loving process that the more conscious “big kids,” who have already asked themselves questions about the meaning of existence, find solace.