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I love you is an art book by artist Katya Lesiv about the stages of maturity, as well as respect for their natural manifestation. It is a documentary photographic series about the intersection of the living rhythms of two separate peonies. "One day I bought a white peony bud from my grandmother at the market. It opened its petals and became lush and beautiful. Later, on 24 May, I bought another bud from the same grandmother and put them side by side in glasses of water. With each passing hour, the first bud opened more and more, while the second was just beginning to open its petals. In a day, they were equally lush and beautiful, and in two days, the first peony wilted, and the second was still lush and beautiful."

Katya Lesiv

About the author

Katya Lesiv graduated from the National Academy of Arts and Architecture (speciality "Graphics") in 2016. In the same year, she took an author's course by Pavlo Makov at Izone.

The author of the series of art books and installations "Lullaby", some of which were presented at a solo exhibition at the Ya Gallery art centre in Kyiv in 2018. The series is still being updated. The author's book I love you is informally part of the series. The art book "Lullaby I" won the first prize of the Dummy Award (published by Rodovid), and also took third place in the Best Book Design competition in 2018 and became part of the international edition of 10x10 Photobooks How We See: Photobooks by Woman."

The artist was shortlisted for the national award "Ukrsuchphoto" in the nomination "Discovery of the Year" and is one of the authors of the project SEMENKO100 (published by Lotia). She has participated in such projects as the Biennale of Young Art in Kyiv as a member of the Montage group (2016), "What do you want?" together with Katya Libkind at the Port creative hub (2018), "(Re)Contexts. Stories" in the Small Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal (2019), the Biennale of Young Art in Kharkiv with the project "In Taras's Garden" (2019).

Katya Lesiv studies body practices (yoga, visceral massage) and Human design. Since 2018, motherhood has become a big part of the author's life. Since then, her artistic practice has been dominated by photography.