Dopamine
Conceptual
Dopamine
Ksenia Mazheyko
Nationality: Spain
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Year: 2025
Technique: Watercolor, ink on paper
51
41
cm
“Holy chemicals” is an investigation of how chemicals determine us. Dopamine traps, cheap and good dopamine … we believe that it has the potential to destroy us or unleash our strength. Yet, every discovery is too fast converted into a “know-how.” Not so fast, please. Ksenia chooses falsification as a research method. How can scientific knowledge be “falsified” in art? Well, reviewing the scientific panorama and expressing the feeling on paper with one brush stroke. The composition based on the dopamine structural formula initially, it was oriented vertically. With every new study, Ksenia realized that the be-strong position doesn’t match the energy of dopamine. It's horizontal, like our determination to follow through mountains after our inner Sun. It is slow, like a big tree growing. It lets us enjoy the blossom but never lets us stop. The value of dopamine is perseverance and dissatisfaction if nothing changes. “My dopamine looks like this,” the artist says. “And yours?”
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