Dreams, 2026

Oleksandra Hrebelna  

The “11 PM" series is an artistic exploration of human vulnerability and privacy through the lens of light voyeurism. What do we do when we're left alone in the dark? While one person says a silent prayer, another searches the internet for answers to questions they wouldn't dare voice during the day. This is an honest and unbiased look at the many facets of our nights: from deep loneliness to intimate moments when true thoughts and hidden desires come to the surface. 

We often live lives that are not our own.
Five days a week we devote to work we hate. We wake up to go to a place where no one hears us. We fill our heads with thoughts that don't belong to us. We fill our time with things and people that don't really matter. And gradually we stop hearing our own dreams.

Often, the days end with such intense fatigue that we don't even have the strength to take a shower. Only five minutes remain — between daylight and the darkness where dreams don't come.
The past spins in your head, and the moment you find yourself in now. The realization comes that everything could have been different.

And suddenly, real desires appear — those that have long lived somewhere in the subconscious. Deep inside, a calm confidence arises: the life that now seems unattainable will one day become a reality.

The work was featured in a group exhibition by Oleksandr Tarasenko and his students, titled “On Wings," at the Mykola Yaroshenko Art Museum in Poltava (Art Gallery)