TETIANA CHORNA

Designer biography:

Tetiana Chorna (born 1979). Ukrainian jewelry designer. An artist-architect by education, she founded her jewelry brand Tetiana Chorna in 2010. The peculiarity of creativity is the combination of an original form, a meaningful message and a mixed technique of execution or materials. Each decoration is a one-of-a-kind art object or a limited edition decoration. Repeated participant of fashion week and exhibitions in Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Chisinau, Bialystok, Paris, Vilnius, Bucharest.

The co-author is the famous Ukrainian artist, painter, sculptor Ivan Hrygoriev.

In 2022 Tetiana Chorna presented their art jewelry at The Romanian Jewelry Week (Bucharest), at the military military jewelry exhibition “Ukraine That Fights” (Kyiv), at the Jewelry Video Festival SMCK ON REEL, at the New York Jewelry Week (online participation).

Collection concept:

"Broken dreams"

Dreams are more powerful than reality. They are a higher reality. A dream is the soul of existence. Without dreams, life loses meaning, colors, poetics, and becomes unbearable and dull. These rings tell us the story of the beauty and power of dreams, which can easily be destroyed. Destroyed by words, disbelief, despair, war...

“Russian Friendship”

(That’s all you have to know about it)

We are from Ukraine.

Yes, we still live in Ukraine and intend to continue living in Ukraine in future. We live in Ukraine, despite the greatest wish of our neighbor country russia, who falsely declares itself our “brother nation”, to erase all that is connected to the people of Ukraine from the face of Earth. We fight, we live, and we believe in a better future, in our future, and we remember the lessons of our past.

We create art from our modernity. The art of here and now. We use new materials and new emotions that appear around us during this war. We document our present state to make it a history we will always remember. “Russian friendship” is one of these things.

“The friendship of the nations” was declared among the main ideological principles of the former Soviet Union, both Ukraine and Russia used to be a part of. This principle proclaimed brotherly relations, extensive cooperation and mutual help between the nations that formed the union. When the union fell apart, Russia had inherited not only Soviet military forces, but also Soviet principles, “the friendship of the nations” was among them. We were raised to believe that this principle is still valid. And now we get to see most clearly what their “friendship” is — a bunch of lies. “Russian friendship” is an attempt to dominate with power, to devastate our land and kill the people of Ukraine. That’s all you have to know about their “friendship”. We are no longer friends and will not be for many years after this war ends with our victory.

“Russian Friendship” breast pin is made of a part of an original fence from a small Ukrainian town. The fence was shot through by russian troops during the “special military operation” (that’s how they call this war) in March 2022.

Breastpin / brooch, 2022

Zinc-coated steel (part of an original fence shot through by russian troops), brass or silver (on demand).

Corset co-authored with Ukrainian clothing designer Gosha Altshuler.

Materials: galvanized steel (part of a shot fence), leather, satin, steel. Year of creation 2023.

Tetiana Chorna (Ukraine)

TETIANA CHORNA

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