Maryan Besaga

Imagined Story explores the overlapping of reality and imagination, creating a kind of inner geography. The central form simultaneously evokes a body, a map, a landscape, and an undefined living organism. Lines pass through it like routes, nerve impulses, or traces of movement.

External events penetrate the private sphere and are transformed by memory, premonitions, and personal experience. The reality of war is not depicted directly — it becomes present through the metamorphoses of form, through a sense of displacement, and through the constant need to reconstruct one's own understanding of the world.

Imagined Story emerges on the threshold between lived experience and imagination. It is not an escape from reality, but an attempt to absorb it, process it from within, and assemble a renewed sense of inner wholeness from its fragments.