Since ancient times, people have given the image of a person almost mystical properties. No wonder many religions, such as Islam, generally forbade depicting not only figures of people but also animals. The one who dared to recreate the image of a living being was considered a sinner who strives to become equal to God himself, because only the Creator can breathe the soul into inanimate clay.

Fortunately, the Christian religions were more tolerant of people's desire to create their own images. Therefore, some pagan rites associated with figurines of a man, carved from wood or molded from clay. For example, it was believed that with their help you can bring "damage" to your enemy. At the same time, portrait resemblance was not taken into account, the fundamental was the belief that in this doll the essence of the victim is concentrated, her soul…

However figurines of people found a harmless use for themselves - they were created for children to play. dolls, beautiful, but sometimes empty and soulless, with large glassy eyes, in which only children with their imagination could find feelings, have become a welcome gift for any child, and you can also have fun with the children, pronouncing tongue twisters with the letter r

Memorable, meticulously crafted figurines people took care of, kept in a conspicuous place. So there were decorative dolls already intended for home decoration. They began to be produced on purpose, and over the years a certain pattern was formed. puppet” beauty. Golden-haired blue-eyed young ladies and pink baby dolls have been stamped for centuries to please people.

But ... where did you go soul creations? Where is that energy, which from time immemorial our ancestors have invested in their own images? Is it possible that in the era of mass culture there are not even traces of the original uniqueness of each created human image?

Fortunately, not everything is so dramatic. Author's interior dolls- this is both magnificent splendor, designed to please the pampered gaze of the viewer, and that inner core that will suddenly make you look back to make sure once again that doll staring at you...

To understand this unusual view art let's look at it through the eyes masters of interior dolls- eyes Galina Dmitruk.

A dream come true

Galina Dmitruk- one of those happy people who managed to turn a hobby into a profession. But it took a very long time to get there. Despite her passion for painting in childhood, Galina did not receive an art education. Fate brought her to the Pedagogical Institute, where the future puppet master also comprehended the basics of journalism.

In parallel with her studies, she was published in the republican press, and also was the deputy editor-in-chief of the student newspaper “ Scaler“, worked in the student press center. And in the fifth year she came to STV as a correspondent. But she devoted all her free time to creativity, whether it was vacation or breaks between work. And this time was sorely lacking. Therefore, deciding not to be torn and not tormented by a choice, Galina left journalism in May of this year. The passion turned out to be stronger, because, as she admitted, it opens up the possibility of complete sincerity in self-expression.

- my first doll I did in tenth grade. The desire to create was so strong that I picked up a cutter and began to fight with the tree. As a result, the creation was generously watered with sweat and blood, and in the literal sense of the last word- smiles Galina.

She always took on the hardest things. AT Workshop of the author's doll Irina Stefan came to learn how to work with porcelain. Despite the fact that now he creates his heroes not only from this material, but also from plastic, he remains loved. After all, for porcelain sculpture the plasticity of gestures and poses, the subtlest play of color, as well as clarity and rigor, which is especially important for the artist, are characteristic.

- I don't do anything soft and fluffy because I'm not like that myself!- with a special gleam in her eyes, Galina assures.

Fantastic characters, mystical images, refined gothic beauties fully characterize her style. In addition, she believes that it is precisely the male vision in creativity that is characteristic of her.

- My work reflects the view of female beauty. And in some of them invested share of erotica.

Galina Dmitruk has already taken part in more than 10 international and republican exhibitions. Despite the fact that it takes a lot of time for one job, over the past three years she has created about 35 works. Some of them have already found their owners and replenished private collections Belarus, Russia, Switzerland, USA.

Mysticism and reality

- Author's dolls always very alive, because they are created by human hands, says the artist enthusiastically. - Not only can I talk to them in the process of work, but also to visitors exhibitions seems to have dolls really is soul. And if this is a strong image with a bright temperament, then a seemingly inanimate figure can conflict with a person. I think many people believe in energy and feel it. There are times when dolls the owners literally survive. Then the creation is returned to the author, and I have always been sympathetic to such situations. I myself can live only with those of my creatures with whom I feel comfortable, who have the same inner world. The most close to me in spirit are the Valkyrie (the queen of migratory birds) and Bertha (the prima of the burnt theater). Unloved - are stored outside the door, I show them only to visitors.

Why, then, what the artist does with his own hands, suddenly acquires character traits that are not characteristic of him?

- dolls easily get out of control, one might say, dictate their own terms. It happens that you think of one image, but in the end you get the opposite. You have to put up with it, but if the new image disappoints you, it is very difficult to force yourself to complete the work. When it's all done doll lives and will definitely please someone else, but, of course, the author is more pleased when visitors are impressed by his favorites.

“Panna DOLL/I”

That's what the first one is called. author's project by Galina Dmitruk. Exhibition housed in the Literary Museum of Maxim Bogdanovich. Except interior dolls visitors are presented with selected works by photographer Nikolai Maminov.

- FROM Nikolai Maminov we've known each other for about a year. Of all the photographers available to me, he is the most talented, and I really like the specificity of his shooting. Moreover, the two of us choose the female nature as the main object of creativity.

The essence of this project is the opposition of images born of fantasy author's doll and artistic photography, synthesis “ stopped life" and " dreams embodied in sculpture ". Samu doll exhibition can be divided into three parts.

The first is the characters Alice in Wonderland ". Galina offers her own vision of this adult fairy tale, brings something new into each image, tries to continue Carroll, recreates unwritten backstory lines for some characters, such as the Duchess.

Part two - " princess ". This is a collection large porcelain dolls (more than a meter high). Non-standard images of familiar fantastic characters, virtuoso performance and, of course, the very temperament that is noticeable in every stroke and gesture.

The third part is made up of older creations, because the author decided not to hide anything from the audience and exhibited everything that she had at home. And this 20 sculptural works. Here you can see the very first wooden doll Galina, and an unusual male character named Mots Art, whose prototype is her husband.

Of course Exhibition attracts the attention of not only admirers of the elegant art but also kids. They are simply delighted with what they see, and the only thing that prevents them from feeling in seventh heaven is that you cannot touch such beauty with your own hands. Unlike the ladies who write on the forum about a direct threat to the child's psyche posed by dolls, children do not see anything terrible in living and mysterious heroes. Only adults are afraid. But art objects are not at all designed for children, just the opposite.

However, it pleases that those who are able to understand this amazing art yet more.

If you also want to see everything with your own eyes, come to the Maxim Bogdanovich Literary Museum: Minsk, st. Bogdanovich, 7a; from 10:00 to 17:00. The exhibition will last until October 13 inclusive.

In the small hall of the Museum of Modern Fine Arts on the evening of March 19, there was literally nowhere for an apple to fall. Minsk residents flocked to the opening of the exhibition of the interior doll master Galina Dmitruk Lux interior, which means "inner light" in Latin. Galina's dolls are not as simple as they might seem at first glance. Both old and young came to make sure of this, despite the age limit "18+" for visitors to the exhibition.

Galina rarely exhibits her amazing works in Belarus: once, maximum twice a year. Therefore, people who came to the opening of a daring, provocative exposition surrounded the author with a dense wall and bombarded him with questions: “Why are the dolls so gloomy?”, “Don’t you think they are creepy?”, “What did you want to say with this doll?”, From what do you make them?”, “How do dolls influence your life?”... Galina, with a smile on her face, answered all questions calmly and in detail, tirelessly repeating that there was nothing demonic or bloody in her works.

"These are not just dolls - these are doll-pictures that reveal the duality of the concepts of "freedom", "fashion" and "beauty", which look at us from the twilight of the compositions with eyes full of inner light. The interior is rethought by Galina Dmitruk as an inner space. And the dolls become not only part of the interior - they have their own interior space, filled with opposing emotions", — its curators inform those who came to the exhibition. But Galina herself completely rejects the concept of "fashion" regarding her dolls: "To those who came here, I want to say that these dolls have nothing to do with either female gracefulness or the modeling business.— absolutely nothing".

"And the author of these dolls is so cute! It's strange..." came a remark in the crowd, dropped by a young girl who was diligently taking pictures of the dolls on her phone. However, not only she was surprised that Galina Dmitruk — a very sweet, sociable and cheerful girl who talks about her serious work, laughing. Many, having become acquainted with the exposition, expected to see a silent woman with a severe stamp of much-talking suffering on her face.

"I don't like to talk about dolls at all.— I'm better at making them, — Galina shares with visitors of the exhibition. — My husband is of the same opinion. In general, I did not plan to do an exhibition in Belarus. Those people who know me will confirm that I am a very sincere, honest and ambitious person. If I see that the public does not understand me, I will not go to them. So it turns out that it is not easy for me to find contact with the Belarusian audience, although there are a lot of amazing, kind and smart people here, and I have the kindest messages. But I see that so many of you have come, so there are people who are interested".

"You see that most of the images here are female, but, oddly enough, men inspired me to create them. They often say to me:" Galya, your dolls look so much like you! ", But my main muse— my husband and all my dolls look like him! He sees me all the time: in a dirty shirt, among scattered brushes and paints ... But I don’t think about it. It seems to me that I live a completely different life, not like other people, I am forever in my fantasies. I want to believe that my fantasies will change the world for the better ... "

"These are not evil, not black, not dramatic works. They are just complex- explains Galina. — If you understand this, then your reward for this will be catharsis.— I promise you this!"

A well-known Belarusian artist came to congratulate Galina Dmitruk with a solo exhibition Anna Silivonchik. She shared with Naviny.by impressions of the complex work of Galina: "I am attracted and admired by the fact that Galya, as an artist, is very organic in her work. What we see in her works are, for sure, self-portraits of the artist, some of her states and moods, and vice versa - looking at Galya, you immediately imagine her dolls This suggests that the artist in his work is real, honest, does not dissemble, and this is worth a lot.

Of course, the European audience is more prepared for something so non-standard and, perhaps, provocative, something that is not sleek, as is often the case with us. But, on the other hand, this is precisely why such an exhibition can cause some kind of resonance, some kind of response, and it doesn’t matter whether it is negative or positive.— it's good anyway. In Europe, probably, such an exhibition will no longer cause a resonance".

Meanwhile, Galina actively communicated with her viewer: “You see, they have very textured faces, so they are constantly changing: otherwise the light will fall, and the doll is already different. Like a portrait of Dorian Gray, only without mystical coloring.

When I turned to Galina for a comment, she was not at all surprised by the Belarusian language and did not start, as often happens, to apologize for loving the language, but not being able to speak it. The artist easily switched to Belarusian, pleasantly surprising me with her smooth and beautiful speech: "Kaneshne, I knew that the reaction of the Gledach would be different and unappointed, for me— I can on ўvaza that I'm not mainstream, but a hotchey underground. If I exhibit my work very rarely in Belarus, then I will exhibit people, looking at them. Some navat and my daddy jump away, look at the new lyalki! Very often, in May, lyalki wandered around not to bachats of a shyrokag of a glider, more often they trap around the Kalektsy where-nebudz for a fur and natural іh ubachyts are already not magchym.

And undesirable look at May creations— geta normal, I myself am so unappointed (smile). Not a varta merkavats something of an old man in a yagonous outward appearance. I pa me dachshund. I don’t live in a certain palace, I don’t eat any other pachvars. I am an extraordinary man, I have here "I: a husband, a son. You can think of different things. For me, you are kind, bright, not ardynary. Yana does not bear death, nor any hubbub ... my inter'er is down, my chest of drawers is down... Of course, I don't slave.— I won’t give you a dzіtsenka ўvagu once more, but I’ll sit down as a slave. There I may have the right to work what I want.

From the Belarusian gliders and kaleksyaners, a kamunikavats was laid out for me. We have a literal tri-chatyry chalavekі, yakіya nabyvayutsya May lyalki. But with the Europeans, more ruhavy, more alive, I easily know the contact— a bunch of maіh lyaleks in private calecs in Europe. Jumping, kali chalavek nabyў hella lyalka, yon abavyazkova nabudze and another, and tretsuyu - zatsyagvae like a drug. And yans and people trapleyutsya, yakіm for sorak, but zusim not so youthful, like many people think. Geta pratsy for those who are pazhyў in the candlelight and understand May of work".

The artist also noted that Irina Khanunik-Rombalskaya, who recently exhibited her fashion models, very similar in style to Galina's work, has nothing to do with her dolls. Galina denied rumors that she taught the TV presenter the puppet trade.

"Dolls are very personal, it's actually naked me...".

Galina Dmitruk is a well-known master of designer interior dolls in Belarus and abroad. The artist's works were exhibited at international and republican exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Spain. Galina's dolls are the face of The Clay and Paint Factory (Belgium) and the popular brand of sculptural material Darwi. For seven years, the author created about a hundred works. The artist's works are in private collections in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic and the USA.

“I am a journalist by profession, a philologist by education, a teacher of the Belarusian language and literature,” the artist said. “But at some point I realized that my hands needed to work with sculptural material. And for seven years now, this has been my profession."

According to Dmitruk, she brings a lot of mystical and irrational into her works, what she experiences inside. "My works are an exaggeration of colors, a grotesque, I'm looking for something real in human feelings, in relationships and I convey it in dolls. But whether it turns out to be Gothic, surrealism or modernism, I can't explain,"

"I want to continue to develop as an artist, I want to continue to exhibit, I want to continue to show my work where they want to see me. Fortunately, money is not an issue for me. I can count on the fact that my "such" doll will be bought, that you can live on it.The works I do are so unfit for any framework that they do not fit into the framework of classic dolls for sale.

Endless red line

golden antelope

red room

Room overlooking the rose garden

Room with secret door

"Naked - does not mean depraved, naked - means defenseless, naked ... like a nerve!"

Unfortunately, many viewers do not go beyond individual external details. It's a pity. By the way, intimus from Latin is not vulgar and pornographic, but internal, personal, deep. Each of my dolls, if you do not stare, but peer, you can see so many symbols, so many little things - every millimeter is explained there, every millimeter of the doll, every millimeter of space around it.

For example, this work, where a doll in cheese with a mousetrap on its finger, is a person mired in his own desires, their hostage. There you need to look, read. But most viewers don't even think about it.

yellow room

Or, for example, the "Red Room", where everyone sees a girl in a peignoir with bunny ears. The images that playboy magazine suggests to us. In fact, this work is about how you are exposed, skinned, skinned - for the sake of fashion. In the eyes of this girl, locked in a cage-box, squeezed into a corner, there are feelings not of a player, but of a toy. But they do not immediately notice this, they do not want to see it. Look at the proportions, the length of the legs, lips, eyes, chest. But every doll has a story - a difficult story, a complex story. The viewer, having quickly examined the doll, should stop and think: "The author wanted to say something to everyone, for some reason he made it ...".

red room

green room

black room

Room for two sisters

- I saw my first doll in a dream. Waking up, I found some kind of piece of wood and intuitively, without any special skills, cut out the head, arms and legs. The professional stage of creativity began a little later. - Probably, everything comes from childhood. I was such a wretch (laughs) - all the time closer to the "dark" character. And I'm still just torn by this image. There is something wildly attractive and alive about him. However, not all of my work is so capricious. There is the same romantic girl waiting for her prince on a white horse, and a naive silly girl with red curls. Among them, there was a place even for an old maid who was sizzling with just a glance.

Interior doll master Galina Dmitruk creates unique and extraordinary female images. An exhibition of her work entitled "Lux interior" is held at the Museum of Modern Fine Arts.

According to the author, these are not just dolls - these are doll-pictures that reveal the duality of the concepts of freedom, fashion and beauty, which look at us from the twilight of the compositions with eyes full of inner light. At the same time, Galina completely rejects the concept of "fashion" in relation to her dolls.

She also said that, oddly enough, men inspire her to create images. “I am often told: “Galya, your dolls are so similar to you!”, But my main muse is my husband, and all my dolls look like him! He sees me all the time: in a dirty shirt, among scattered brushes and paints ... But I don’t think about it. It seems to me that I live a completely different life, not like other people, I am forever in my fantasies. I want to believe that my fantasies will change the world for the better, ”said Galina.To those who have come here, I want to say that these dolls have nothing to do with either female gracefulness, or with the modeling business - absolutely nothing, ”said the artist. And when asked why all her dolls are so gloomy, Galina Dmitruk said: “These are not evil, not black, not dramatic works. They are just complex. If you understand this, then your reward will be catharsis, I promise you this.

Galina Dmitruk is a well-known master of designer interior dolls in Belarus and abroad. The artist's works were exhibited at international and republican exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Spain. Galina's dolls are the face of The Clay and Paint Factory (Belgium) and the popular brand of sculptural material Darwi. For seven years, the author created about a hundred works. The artist's works are in private collections in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic and the USA.

ukly Galina Dmitruk(the ones I saw) are pretty big, about a meter tall, and completely alive. Her works inspired me to try to work with plastics, of course, this is far from her work, but this is my experience, but this is not about that now.
So I won’t torment anymore, I think there will be no indifferent, these girls are unique ...





































I recently had the pleasure of meeting and talking with a wonderful puppet maker, Galina Dmitruk.

She creates stunning designer interior dolls.




— Tell me a little about yourself

“I don't like to talk about myself. If I could express my thoughts and feelings eloquently enough, I would write poems, novels, memoirs... But my whole story about myself can only be read in my works: in broken lines of poses, fingers elongated to infinity, wet eyes. In my dolls, I convey almost everything that is happening in my life at the moment.
I live and work in Belarus. In different cities. I don't have any specific fixed place, a workshop. My workshop is in my head.




— How did you start and how did you get into dolls?

Creativity has always been in my life. Drawing, sculpture, all kinds of arts and crafts, photography. Unfortunately, as a child, I did not show perseverance and did not receive an art education. After all, my parents wanted their daughter to definitely get a “serious profession”. I am a philologist and journalist by education. Probably, if my craving for art was not so strong, I would still work as a correspondent for one of the Belarusian channels ... But everything turned out differently. At the age of 22, I found the courage to give up almost everything that I had and devote myself exclusively to creativity.






— What materials do you work with and why did you choose these materials?

— My first doll was made of wood. Then the stage of modeling from sculptural plasticine and farming began. At first I made dolls from plaster, then porcelain. Now I have chosen the best option for myself - modeling from scratch from self-hardening clay. When you sculpt a new doll without using ready-made forms, you are constantly improving in sculpture. This is the most important thing for me now - to constantly improve my professional level and skills. Moreover, now the director of the company that produces my favorite and self-hardening clay is my good friend and collector. And I have the opportunity not only to admire the photo of my doll on each pack of darwi roc, but also to participate in the advice in improving the formula of the material.






— What inspires you?

Almost everything inspires me. Mostly people, of course. More precisely, the emotions that these people are able to evoke. Despite the established style, my dolls are very different. From insanely beautiful to scary and frightening. The thing is that my life is very multifaceted and contradictory.




— Tell us a little about your dolls, how is the image born? Is a sketch created and how long does the process take from a drawing to a finished doll?

- Dolls are born constantly in my head. You know, it's not just “shouldn't I make a girl in a blue dress?...” usually these are complex and chaotic experiences, reasoning ... I don't draw a sketch, there is no forethought in my works initially. I just start working on another doll and gradually endow it with symbols, meanings... Coloristic and compositional decisions come in the process.




— Who creates wigs, clothes, accessories for your work?

- The whole doll, every millimeter of it is only my work. This is how it should always be. Otherwise, the doll could not rightfully be called an author's doll.





- Do you make custom dolls?

I don't make dolls to order. For a very long time. I do not initially pursue a commercial goal in my work. It is important for me to convey to the viewer a thought, an idea, an image, and not to please someone and get paid for it.

- Do you have any other hobbies besides dolls?

— I have a small child, a family. Given that I work on dolls for 14 hours a day, there is no time left for anything else.





— My last collection was called high heels. The premiere took place at the exhibition "The Art of the Doll" in December. This collection is a reflection on women constantly balancing between beauty that will save the world and beauty that requires sacrifice. High heels are a metaphor. This is the 16-centimeter pedestal on which a woman erects herself. At the same time, a hairpin puts a woman in a dual position: at the same time it is strength, stamina, independence, firmness, but at the same time fragility, instability, precariousness of position. Wearing high heels is always a female challenge to society. And few people can cope with the role of a woman on a pedestal.









— Do you give master classes?

I don't give them.
Occasionally, twice a year, I hold a master show at the request of a company that produces darvi rock.
I held such master shows in Frankfurt, Singapore, Yalta, Moscow. They are free and usually gather a lot of people.








We wish Galina creative success, of course, inspiration and many new collections!

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Her paintings reveal the duality of the concepts of "fashion", "beauty" and "freedom". Galina Dmitruk, a master of designer interior dolls, seeks to destroy the usual idea of ​​puppetry by mixing forms, rethinking classical images and reflecting different states of mind. “My dolls have nothing to do with the fashion industry. I do not promote either eroticism or anorexic proportions as an image of female beauty. Men generally inspire me to create these works. After all, it’s not about external forms, but about emotions: love, compassion, great happiness, ” Galina explains.

Nevertheless, organizing an exhibition of such candid works in Minsk is quite difficult: “Many paintings are covered. This nudity is perceived as erotica, pornography, as outrageous. But my nakedness is a revelation, defenselessness, an exposed nerve,— says the artist. — I don't want to sew pleats on dresses. It is much more interesting to show the human body, to work with forms, with muscles, with movement. Therefore, my dolls are often more undressed than dressed.”

However, Galina invites the viewer not to divide the dolls into components, looking at the legs, lips or eyes. It is better to peer into the symbols, deep into the picture. "This is a mouse caught in a mousetrap,- explains our heroine. — It is made like a mechanical mouse, like a toy that has become a victim of its own desires. For example, a victim of gluttony.

But this witch brews a potion. “She welds her hair in there. No one should wish evil Galina is sure. — When you make a potion for someone, you put yourself in it, and then you suffer from it."

One of the artist's favorite works is a doll in a flayed rabbit skin. A kind of alter ego of Galina: “This is not a Playboy, not a bunny with ears in a beautiful red peignoir. This is a man who has his own skin flayed for the sake of fashion. The Red Room is very close to me. Not the dolls are naked, but I am naked in front of the viewer. I often feel this way. It's like something is being ripped off me."

In everyday life, Galina is a very energetic and cheerful person. We asked why all her dolls are so sad.

“I'm afraid of clowns. It seems to me that a frozen smile is hypocrisy. Almost every doll I have has a small tear. After all, crying is a very pure emotion. You can cry from happiness, from grief, from nostalgic memories, from good music,- says the master. — In this case, it is not necessary to smile with a wide smile or twist your lips in a tragic line. Sometimes there is a catharsis, and you cry because you finally understand the meaning of this life.

The Snail and Her Ideal Home is the work that started the idea of ​​rooms and spaces. “We should not interfere with others by creating our own space. Everyone should be comfortable. This work is an appeal to people who think that I'm depressed and doing some dark devils, the heroine explains. — No, I see everything in bright, contrasting colors. Black for me does not symbolize mourning. Black is a canvas on which any falsehood, lie, any flaw is visible.

For seven years of her work, Galina made about a hundred dolls. It takes at least two months to create one character. Six more pieces are currently in the works. “I want my dolls to live not for 2-3 years, but to remain after me for 50 or even 100 years,– the artist says smiling. — Therefore, I make them from expensive fittings, very high quality antique fabrics. I buy eyes in Germany. But my paintings are not a decorative thing. This is a form in which a very deep content is embedded: my attitude to people, to the world, to beauty. This is my life".

Galina's dolls can be seen more often at exhibitions abroad than in Belarus. Her works are readily acquired by collectors from Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the USA. "I don't want to exhibit my work where the public will laugh or make a face, says the master. — Do not annoy someone once again, impose what you do not like. I think the Belarusian viewer should educate himself. And I need to develop, go somewhere, demonstrate my doll-paintings.

Often one has to face misunderstanding and condemnation from Belarusians: “Often something new is perceived by the Belarusian audience very skeptically. And they begin to accept and understand only after it has been praised in Europe. Why is it so difficult for our audience to understand

Exhibition of Galina Dmitruk "LUX INTERIOR"

The works of Galina Dmitruk cause indelible impressions. However, you canmake sure of it With ami, the exhibition will last until March 30 (Independence 47, small hall of the Museum of Modern Fine Arts).

You can give people moments of happiness in completely different ways. And it is much more pleasant if you get incredible pleasure from it. Galina Dmitruk, one of the few masters of designer interior dolls in Belarus, has found her own way to make this world more beautiful.

Puppet design in Belarus began to develop relatively recently - about four years ago. Galina, despite her young age (today the girl is only 25) and the specialty of a journalist, is one of the masters who stood at the origins of this art in our country.

Since 2007, Galina has taken part in more than 15 international exhibitions. She has about 60 works, but most of them can only be seen in the pictures - almost all of them have gone to different parts of the world, to private collections of connoisseurs.

The most intriguing thing is that her creations are by no means classic porcelain beauties with golden curls and an empty smile, but gothic aristocrats and mystical witches, a little frightening with the power of the image, but undoubtedly charming.
Galina told us about the "birth" of unusual dolls and the process of their creation.

- Galina, at the age of 25 you have already worked as a journalist on the republican TV channel, a teacher of the Belarusian language and literature at school. However, I found myself in a completely different ...

Yes, I am a very active person. No one knows how much is destined for him, so sometimes it seems to me that even if I have 80 years left, it’s still very little to do everything.

Inner comfort is the most important thing for me today. Previously, I had to do a lot with the feeling that parents, employers, society expect this from me. But after the birth of my baby (Mark is a year old) I felt inner confidence. Finally managed to properly prioritize. After all, you won’t get away from yourself - you want to do something in which you can be unique.

It may sound a little naive, but from early childhood I was constantly drawing and making something with my own hands. At a more conscious age, she began to alter clothes. In parallel with this, dolls have always been one of the favorite “entertainments”. In them, all my creative abilities somehow very logically converged: the ability to sew, the vision of unconventional styles, the sense of color and texture. Moreover, no other occupation brings me so much satisfaction and a sense of harmony.

- How was your first doll "born"?

- I saw my first doll in a dream. Waking up, I found some kind of piece of wood and intuitively, without any special skills, cut out the head, arms and legs. The professional stage of creativity began a little later.

- Probably, everything comes from childhood. I was such a wretch (laughs) - all the time closer to the "dark" character. And I'm still just torn by this image. There is something wildly attractive and alive about him. However, not all of my work is so capricious. There is the same romantic girl waiting for her prince on a white horse, and a naive silly girl with red curls. Among them, there was a place even for an old maid who was sizzling with just a glance.

- Your works are made in an individual style, the only one of its kind both in Belarus and, possibly, in all of Europe. How would you characterize it?

- I would call this style distorted realism. Yes, do not be surprised, after all, realism, because I really like natural beauty and naturalness. At the same time, I strongly distort this beauty in the direction of hypertrophy. If I see in the appearance or image of a woman an element that delights me, then I will certainly greatly increase it, hyperbalize it. If these are thin legs, then they will definitely be very long. Expressive eyes - incredibly large.

Images, costumes... it cannot be said that this is gothic in its traditional sense, rather, interpreted by my perception.

“When a master creates a doll, he, figuratively speaking, breathes life into it. In many religions, it was completely forbidden to depict human figures in the past. Do you believe in the "magic" of dolls?

- Author's dolls - they are alive. And, of course, I believe in their magic.
There was a case, I made a doll for my teacher, who always dreamed of dancing. The porcelain dancer with lowered legs turned out to be her reduced copy. But the doll's legs were constantly breaking. Imagine my surprise when I met a teacher with a wand after a fracture. She was never given the job. I still don't want to sell the doll.

And such incredible cases I can tell about almost every one of my dolls.

- Some masters sew a heart into a doll, they say, so that it comes to life. How do you breathe life into your characters?

- Eyes! For me, this is the key moment in the doll. My work is getting bigger and bigger. He looked into his eyes, caught contact ... and warmth went into his heart. Only then do you notice that the doll has thin fingers, that she is holding something in her hands, and so on. I believe that the doll's eyes can somehow interact with this world.

Another significant point is that there are elements of vintage in the outfits and images of all my dolls. I use antiques all the time. Whether it is the veil of my husband's mother, which, in turn, was sent to her by her mother from Argentina 50 years ago, or a small coin from the time of Tsarist Russia.

Just feel it: it seems like an ordinary piece of rag, but how many human destinies “she saw”. After all, this veil was treated in a certain way, carefully kept, since it reached me after so many years. It's better than any heart or spell! It is "alive", with its incredible history.

- A doll is a synthesis of sculpture, art, design, the skill of a hairdresser, shoemaker, tailor ... So how long does it take to create it?

- About three weeks. My dolls are completely different sizes: from thirty-five centimeters to a meter and even more. Laborious work!

First, a mold is molded from plaster, into which porcelain is poured a little later. When the material has dried up, but not yet hardened, I proceed to the adjustment: I make a cut of the eyes, the shape of the lips and eyebrows, and create the mood of the heroine. Then I proceed to polishing the details and creating a frame. I especially like the stage of creating a costume. You sew on the last pebble - and here it is, the moment of truth! The feeling of joy from the fact that your mission as an artist has been completed and now you can “let go” of the doll is incomparable to anything. Even though I invest a lot in dolls, I learn to let them go with ease. And, of course, I try to constantly keep in touch with those who bought them. I even have a dream to visit all the countries where my dolls have moved.

- What is the main thing for you when you “release your offspring into the world”?

- So that a person appreciates and understands the doll. Many of the people who bought my work even decorated rooms specifically for them.

I believe that in some way a doll can influence a person. Even if you got up in the morning, looked at her and just smiled, this is already a positive charge that you carry in yourself and give to people, family, and colleagues you meet along the way. They, in turn, from this, too, the mood rose. And it went ... Like a domino track! All this can be compared to the effect of a flapping butterfly wing, from which a tsunami can occur on another continent.

Yes, I am guided by such utopian thoughts when I create! (laughs)