Adam and Eve

Volodymyr Manzhos, known as Waone or Interesni Kazki, was born in 1981 near Kyiv. His primary visual language consists of surrealistic fairy-tale stories with elements of spiritual and symbolic context. His works explore themes of ecology, apocalypse, the duality of life, and cosmology. “The main purpose of my art is to discover who I am and to explore the external world. Through the creative process, I redirect attention from wasteful everyday life to invisible worlds, to the origins of existence. My narratives are dreamlike, non-linear stories that combine fantasy, symbols, and expression. I draw inspiration from the visual aesthetics of books and engravings by old masters.”