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The Wrestler and Fatigue
The figure is fixed at the point of tension between effort and exhaustion. The image of the sword appears not as a symbol of struggle, but as a trace of the first personal gesture created by hand. It is an object of becoming, connected to the early experience of recognizing strength, responsibility, and limits. The work speaks of a moment of transition, when the struggle has no clear direction yet, but fatigue already becomes part of personal memory. Here, strength is formed not through victory, but through living one’s own possibilities and limitations.
Artur Soletskyi is a Ukrainian artist, was born in 1996 in Vinnytsia, currently lives and works in Lviv. In his practice, he combines installation, video art, sculpture, and painting, working primarily with canvas and acrylic. The main themes of his art are the interaction between humans and space, the influence of the artistic environment on the viewer, as well as the exploration of mass psychology. The artist’s style is distinguished by minimalism, active interaction with the surroundings, the symbolism of the human body, and its deformation as a means of conveying emotional states.
