"One and a half Neurons from Aggressiveness to Sexuality" Project

Concept: "One and a half neurons from aggressiveness to sexuality" is an art project collaboration between photo artist Olga Volodina and psychotherapist Evgeny Ryaboy, which explores aggressiveness as a component of human life and aggressive behavior in heterosexual relationships. It will be about both the energy that makes it possible to get sexual pleasure through various forms of healthy aggression during sexual intercourse, and about strong uncontrollable experiences that go beyond this healthy aggressiveness and can be dangerous, cruel, and destructive for a person. The series of artworks is a conscious display of the artist's exploration of her own sexuality, a reflection of the study of the sexual relationships with men in different periods of her life. Each still-life image is an intimate experience, a story, a flow of experience made meaningful through psychotherapy. Exploring aggression as a necessary component of sexuality, the artist creates conceptual photographs using the language of metaphors and symbols - the language that our unconscious speaks. Each picture is accompanied by a commentary, a conclusion, or a parable by a psychotherapist, which he writes interpreting the work of the artist. Experimenting with Katathymic objects in psychotherapy sessions, the artist makes it possible for words and feelings to "take on flesh" in the still-life images and discover new meanings of her behavior, sublimating negative experiences and emotions into creativity.