The Pulse of Spring

From March 18 to 23, 2025, the art exhibition “The Pulse of Spring” was held at the Eight Squared Gallery in Folkestone. Ten young artists, working in various genres and techniques, presented a range of their digital, painted, and photographic works that explore the theme of spring.

Spring (in a global sense) is a complex cultural concept that encompasses climatological terminology, the humanistic joy of new beginnings, and the mystical anticipation of the revival of life after death (of winter).

One of the main missions of contemporary art is to inspire people by providing them with new ways to view the world and to live in it. The works in the exhibition vividly convey this maximalist intention of the artists, as they present a whole panorama of images that are the product of long artistic reflection and practice: pastoral landscapes, impossible sprouts in lifeless wastelands, the strength of life despite wars and disasters, people as agents of spring, post-anthropocenic metamorphoses, and many other themes.

The exhibition “The Pulse of Spring” is a true hymn to the diversity of perspectives and the will to find joy; it represents a wide range of expressions from a contemporary generation of young professional artists (Anastasiia Ermakova, Anna Archen, Artemiy Repin, Kseniia Chumakova, Mariia Denysenko, Anastasiya Mykhaylova, Oksana Bochina, Tretiak Iulia, Vadim Dashkovsky, Victoria Dini).

After visiting the exhibition, one is left with a powerful aesthetic effect and a cognitive aftertaste that compels a continuous reassessment of values and one’s relationship with the world, humanity, and personal enthusiasm.

I firmly believe that such exhibition projects are exactly what we residents of the 21st century (living under the endless onslaught of media and social media disinformation) need. We need high-quality art, and we need a reminder that winter will end, and spring cannot help but arrive.