Katya Lesiv: I love you

“One day I bought an unblown white peony from an old woman at the market. It blossomed, showy and beautiful. On May 24th, I bought another and placed them side by side in glasses of water. The first kept unfolding while the second was just beginning. The next day they were equally radiant; two days later, the first withered, the second still bloomed.”

I love you is an art book about stages of maturity and about appreciating their natural manifestations, a documentary account of how the two particular peonies rhythms of life overlap.

About the artist
Katya Lesiv (b. 1993, Ukraine) is a visual artist and photographer currently based in Finland. Her practice explores themes of cyclicality, physicality, emotional experience, and motherhood through photography, artist books, installation, text, and moving image. Lesiv’s works have been presented in solo exhibitions in Ukraine, Finland, and the Netherlands. Her photobook Lullaby 1 was included in the top 100 photobooks of How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks), and her book I love you was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook Awards in 2022.

By purchasing this print, you are donating 10 € to forest protection

The Association of Photographic Artists is participating in the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation´s (Luonnonperintösäätiö) campaign that is raising funds for the Art Forest (Taiteen metsä). The artist donates 5 € and the Association of Photographic Artists doubles the donation.