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The horizon is more than just a line dividing the sky and the earth. It is a boundary that shapes our perception of space and time—a point of departure. For Anna Gidora, the horizon is an ongoing dialogue with a place to which she returns time and again. It is a space of traces, signs, and archaic layers that emerge through the landscape.

For the artist, that place is Mohrytsia—a border village in northern Ukraine, perched on a chalk plateau near the Psel River. In 1997, artists led by Hanna Hidora began creating there. Since then, the Borderland Space symposium has become the most significant land art event in Ukraine, transforming this territory into one of the key toponyms in Gidora’s artistic practice. In Mohrytsia, past and present converge, shaping a unique space where connections emerge—binding a community and extending beyond the physical landscape.

Today, Mohrytsia stands as one of the outposts of full-scale war. The horizon, once a symbol of openness and boundlessness, has become a threshold of struggle, resistance, and sorrow. The onset of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022 shattered the familiar coordinates of existence, rupturing the continuity of the known world. In response, Hidora’s art becomes a journey into the depths of the landscape—one vista unfolding through another, as color takes on the rhythm of a meditative current flowing through time.

The paintings presented in this exhibition are a multi-layered visual meditation, a chromatic prayer resonating in space, expanding the boundaries of perception. Here, the landscape is not a fixed image—it shifts, breathes, and merges with layers of history and nature. And in this very dynamism, the horizon’s edge ceases to be a limit—it becomes a point of discovery.

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