In The Promise of Sublime Words series consisting of photographs and GIF files, the artist reconstructs classical representations of ancient and neoclassical sculptures. Starting with archival materials – art history textbooks, reproductions of sculptures, and classical portraits – Ewa Doroszenko transforms these illustrations through a complex process: printing, physical manipulation, cutting, arranging into new configurations, re-photographing, and finally digital editing.

Through deliberate distortion, fragment removal, and the overlaying of glitches, she creates a body of work that reflects on the condition of art in today’s digital reality. By engaging with visual relics of the past reproductions of classical sculptures and images of once-idealized beauty – Doroszenko enters a dialogue with history. What was once considered absolute beauty is fragmented and transformed in her hands; classical harmony gives way to an aesthetic of ambiguity.

This project can be read not only as a commentary on art history but also as a critical voice in the broader discourse on the sublime, digital reproduction, and the status of the image in the Internet age. Doroszenko places ancient figures in spaces disrupted by digital errors, image multiplication, and visual fragmentation. Her works attempt to capture the tension between the historical desire for ideal form and today’s instability of image and identity.

In a time when the image has been trivialized by overproduction, and aesthetic experience has become a migration of visuals through an endless stream of data rather than an act of contemplation, Doroszenko proposes a return to origins – not as nostalgic regression, but as a creative experiment. Her reconstruction of the sublime takes the form of ruin. A ruin is a trace of former grandeur, but also its negation. It evokes melancholy and fascination simultaneously. Similarly, her images function as ruins of classical ideals and the sublime experience – an aesthetic of the sublime after the loss of faith in beauty, and at the same time, a desperate attempt to retrieve it in a new form, under contemporary conditions.