MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: NIKA GENESIS - “NOT HONEY”

What does a body become when sweetness stops protecting it?
What remains when the light that once held you soft suddenly turns clinical, exposing the quiet animal underneath?

Not Honey arrives like a confession torn in half—two small squares, two contradictory selves, two wounds that refuse to resolve. On the left, the chest dissolves into a blown-out radiance, a double exposure that looks less like an image and more like the residue of a memory strained past recognition. The body appears mid-motion, mid-escape, mid-collapse—soft, overexposed, almost holy. A vanishing.

On the right, the face returns. Brutally present. Blurred, overlit, biting back at the world with a look that isn’t quite rage and isn’t quite surrender. It’s the moment after sweetness curdles, when innocence stops negotiating and the self learns to snarl for survival. If the left image is a ghost, the right is the haunting.

The diptych’s violence is emotional, not literal—its rupture etched through contrast, light, and the refusal to stabilize. This is the MORE CARNAGE ethos embodied: the body as battlefield, the photograph as aftermath, the self split and still somehow coherent in its unraveling. Nothing here strives for cleanliness. Instead, Not Honey chooses rawness, lets the blur testify, and trusts the viewer enough to confront what isn’t neatly resolved.

ABOUT NIKA GENESIS

Nika Genesis is a Ukrainian artist working across photography and sculpture to map the internal terrains of rupture and renewal. Her practice begins in the aftermath—what’s left when a relationship, a sense of belonging, or an image of the self breaks open. She uses the body as witness and weapon, shaping what once felt unbearable into form. Drawn to the edges where beauty decays and emotion turns feral, she shoots instinctively, letting light, blur, and the unplanned become part of the confession. Her work lives in the tension between intimacy and resistance, soft but volatile, tender but willing to bite. In MORE CARNAGE, her contribution stands unapologetically in its mess, refusing erasure, refusing cleanup, refusing to be sweet when sweetness is no longer true.

WEBSITE: http://nikagenesis.com/

INSTAGRAM: nika genesis (@nika.genesis) • Instagram photos and videos

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