Breaking the mirror – Katya Yadrishchenskaya

In this project Breaking the mirror I explore separation from my twin sister – the process of finding independence from her.

Artist : Katya Yadrishchenskaya

Series : Breaking the mirror

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Throughout our lives we have been existing in a space where there were only two of us. Since my sister got her first relationship there appeared the third person in this space. This pushed me to start creating a new space for myself separate from her.

4-11-2024
Sometimes I’d like to think I’ve learnt to cope with loneliness and it’s no longer a problem. But most of the time I think that these thoughts are more like manifestation or self-convincing, that the process is going on and developing.

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Sometimes I have moments of falling when I feel like I’m lying in an abyss and I don’t know when or how I’m going to get out of it. it’s like I’m frozen in the moment and I don’t know how to keep moving, like there’s nothing else.

13-09-2024
When my mum was pregnant and she had her first ultrasound, she was told that we might turn out to be Siamese twins. After she told me that, I developed a fear of Siamese twins. The fact that we could be Siamese twins instils in me the fear of being them. Being so close to Dasha, depending on her so much, is why I have an irrational fear of Siamese twins.

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