The pictorial series of works "Non-childish games" is devoted to reflections on freedom and prohibitions, the boundaries of which are formed in childhood. Human freedom, both internal and external, has aroused public interest in all epochs and has become a topic for literary works and scientific works by philosophers, cultural scientists, and psychologists.
Childhood itself is associated with freedom: in no other period of life does a person feel so natural, creative, spontaneous and carefree. However, it is in childhood that we are surrounded by many prohibitions – probably that is why children want to become adults as soon as possible, because the child hears much more often about how much he cannot do than about what he can do. As you get older, the amount of control increases: first, with the help of educators and teachers, and then the person himself sets himself the limits of what is allowed, sometimes limiting his own abilities and aspirations. Although many adult prohibitions are aimed at protecting a child from danger and making his life more orderly, excessive guardianship can lead in the future to a state of so-called "learned helplessness": self-doubt, anxiety, inability to take responsibility, fear of mistakes.
In a global sense, all social institutions are designed for consistency, control, subordination, and therefore restriction of a person's personal freedom. It is they who form the worldview and values, and sometimes morality, from childhood…
In her works, the artist pays attention to the attributes that bind freedom: helmet, blindfold, leg restraints and handcuffs, mask – all these objects refer us to the idea of losing freedom, however, they can be used as elements of the game. Play is the main activity of a child, it is through it that he learns about the world around him, so the visual "shackling of the game" can be interpreted as deprivation of childhood, and therefore loss of symbolic freedom.
Revealing the theme of the boundaries of (non-) freedom through childhood, the artist implicitly poses to each viewer the question of his degree of freedom – from personal and internal, to public and global.