Short Stories: Jenya Datsko

'Short Stories' unfolds like a collection of fleeting episodes - moments suspended in time. This series of works resist coherence in the traditional sense; they are not arranged as a narrative, like chapters in a book, nor do they follow a linear sequence. Instead, they are connected by an inner tension, like scattered pages torn from a private diary. Each composition exists as a brief encounter, simultaneously revealing and concealing - offering what can be seen on the surface while withholding the full narrative, unraveling just outside the frame.

At first glance, these scenes might appear deceptively simple: a quiet gesture, a flower held loosely, a moment of shared conversation. Yet within each of these understated instances resides a spectrum of uncertainty, longing, and hesitation. What might first appear serene, or even joyful, gradually reveals more complex layers. A bright composition may carry beneath it a quiet anxiety. The visible and the internal do not always align. It is precisely this tension that captivates Datsko: the subtle contradictions of lived experience, when appearance belies what remains unspoken - something uneasy, something unresolved.