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A Game in Defense
This painting is deliberately naïve, as it is about the inner child who has finally found peace and worked through defense mechanisms. Who has realized that the opponent in the game is not an enemy (especially when playing with oneself). The work depicts a child who has finally learned to derive pleasure not from winning, but from the game itself.
Dania Shulipa is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, graphic art, sculpture, digital art, and design. At the center of his creative expression lies the exploration of life through personal reflections. The artist’s visual language combines elements of expressionism, symbolism, urban aesthetics, and motifs of mass culture, retro, and punk. Drawing on these codes, Shulipa constructs his own artistic context and visualizes an individual worldview. Was born in 1998 in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
