Threads Between Generations, 2026

Halyna Kirichenko  

"Threads Between Generations" from the series “Between Generations"

In this painting from the series Between Generations, Ukrainian figurative artist Halyna Kirichenko reflects on the quiet continuity that connects human lives across time.

Set within a calm natural landscape, three female figures — a grandmother, a mother, and a child — stand together in a moment of stillness. They embody different stages of life, yet they are united by invisible threads of memory, care, and experience that flow gently from one generation to the next.

At the heart of this silent dialogue is the presence of the grandmother. She represents a deep source of wisdom and emotional grounding in the life of a child. Through shared moments, stories, and quiet gestures, the grandmother passes on something that cannot be measured or fully explained — a sense of belonging, resilience, and continuity.

Within Kirichenko's artistic exploration of the stages of human life, family becomes a living bridge between past and future. The women in the painting form a delicate chain of experience, where each generation carries traces of the ones that came before.

The work invites the viewer to pause and reflect:
What invisible threads connect us to those who came before us — and what will we quietly pass on to the generations that follow?

Series Between Generations

In the series Between Generations, Ukrainian figurative artist Halyna Kirichenko explores family life as a space where personal histories, values, and life choices are quietly formed and passed on. Family is portrayed not only as a social unit, but as an intimate emotional territory shaped by care, responsibility, vulnerability, and love.
Through symbolic figurative scenes, the artist reflects on relationships between parents and children, the continuity of generations, and the invisible threads that connect individual destinies. These works consider how major life decisions, inner transformations, and historical realities are experienced within the family and carried forward across time.
Between Generations invites the viewer into a contemplative dialogue about belonging, memory, and the silent influence of those who came before us.