Polina Bortina
RU/EN

About the work

An ornament built on the principle of symmetry and endless unfolding is embedded in a complex relief structure. The surface is not merely disrupted — it is rebuilt into an architecture in which elements protrude, recede and shift, creating a tense field between plane and volume.

The decorative system, initially striving for wholeness, loses its stability: the lines of the ornament break off, bend and submit to a new logic of form. The centre of the composition is no longer fixed — it disperses, distributed across the whole structure.

The work turns ornament from a sign of order into a dynamic system, where destruction becomes a method of organisation and the surface a place of constant redistribution of force and balance.

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