{"id":392977,"date":"2025-06-15T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/djc.com.ua\/news\/the-heart-of-ukraine-beats-and-the-garden-of-life-blooms-in-menorah-center\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:22:41","slug":"the-heart-of-ukraine-beats-and-the-garden-of-life-blooms-in-menorah-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djc.com.ua\/en\/news\/the-heart-of-ukraine-beats-and-the-garden-of-life-blooms-in-menorah-center\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Heart of Ukraine\u201d beats and the \u201cGarden of Life\u201d blooms in Menorah Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As part of the large-scale \u201cDays of Ideas\u201d forum hosted by the Aspen Institute Kyiv at the Menorah Center, two major cultural events were presented \u2014 \u201cThe Heart of Ukraine\u201d and \u201cThe Garden of Life.\u201d Though physically unrelated, both are united by a shared conceptual and symbolic field.<\/p>

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The authors and creative forces behind these events are our fellow Dnipro natives \u2014 now internationally recognized figures and Aspen program alumni. Mykola Kabluk, founder of Expolight, presented the \u201cHeart of Ukraine\u201d installation, while Alina Gaeva, fondly remembered in Dnipro for her \u201cChorna Yashchirka\u201d (Black Lizard) gallery and now a globally renowned artist, illustrator, and designer of art objects in various media, brought to life the \u201cGarden of Life\u201d in Menorah.<\/p>

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\u201cThe Heart of Ukraine\u201d came to life in the Menorah Gallery, in the part facing Uspenska Square. It is a complex network of interwoven elements that interact with viewers through light, sound, and emotion. Special sensors combined with artificial intelligence technology adapt the rhythm, color, and sound of the installation depending on how people behave around it. \u201cFor the first time, we used new spatial sensor algorithms that allow the heart to ‘feel’ collective interaction. The \u2018Heart\u2019 embodies the pulse of civic dialogue and a shared idea essential to democratic society. It symbolizes values-based leadership, openness and responsibility, the desire to create and improve the world, synergy, and unity of action,\u201d says Mykola Kabluk. <\/p>

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The \u201cGarden of Life\u201d bloomed in the Pcholkin House, where Alina Gaeva presented eight out of fifty \u201cTrees of Life\u201d she created. Each tree was shown in three different forms \u2014 as a graphic artwork, as large colorful textile variations on chiffon, and as jewelry. All trees are rooted in traditional Ukrainian patterns dating back to the Cossack era, encoded in traditional embroidery. Alina revealed this foundational image, concentrating its energy in precise lines, and demonstrated how rich and diverse it is \u2014 capable of manifesting through color and fabric, metal and stone, or even as a simple outline on a white sheet. \u201cIt\u2019s not just an image \u2014 it\u2019s something much deeper. Each tree is paired with a word,\u201d explains Alina. \u201cThe word came to me after I had created the image, and sometimes I wanted to change it \u2014 but I couldn\u2019t. It\u2019s the unified fabric of being. We can only capture its projections. It\u2019s a metaphor that gives us the strength to live and create life.\u201d <\/p>

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The \u201cGarden of Life\u201d with Alina Gaeva\u2019s art and jewelry designed by renowned jeweler Olena Zavorotna bloomed for only one day at Menorah. However, the \u201cHeart of Ukraine\u201d installation will remain on display at Menorah until June 17 \u2014 anyone can visit, interact with it, and invite friends to experience this powerful symbol.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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