The first principle (Latin: “Ab ovo”) – this is how in ancient poetics the narrative about the most important thing began, from the very source.

第一原则（拉丁语：“Ab ovo”）是古代诗歌叙事的开端：讲述最重要的事情，从源头开始。

By choosing this Latin formula as a title, the artist sets an epic scale, but directs it not outward, but inward – to the primordial, cellular, archetypal matter of feminine nature.

In the series' monumental canvases, the egg is not just an object, but a universal symbol, shattered to reveal its essence. We see the fragile shell at the moment of catastrophic cracking, the fluid, living yolk, and the scrambled egg as the result of an irreversible transformation. The hyperrealism of the fragments here coexists with an almost abstract, pictorial element, transforming the biological form into a cosmic landscape.

通过选择这个拉丁公式作为标题，艺术家设定了一个史诗般的规模，但其方向不是向外，而是向内——指向女性本性的原始、细胞、原型物质。

在这一系列巨幅画作中，鸡蛋不仅仅是一个物体，更是一个普世的象征，破碎后揭示其本质。我们看到脆弱的蛋壳在灾难性破裂的瞬间，流淌着鲜活的蛋黄，以及不可逆转的转变后破碎的蛋黄。这些碎片的超写实主义与近乎抽象的绘画元素并存，将生物形态转化为宇宙景观。

But this is not a still life. It is a portrait.

但这不是静物画，而是肖像画。

A portrait of a state. A portrait of choice. A portrait of pressure and liberation. The "First Principle/Ab ovo" series explores what binds and defines a woman long before her personal choice—the archetypal expectation of "destiny." The egg here becomes a metaphor for potential, the dormant possibility of "procreation" within the body, which for some is a desired essence, and for others, an imposed imperative, a source of profound frustration.

这是一幅状态的画像，一幅选择的画像，一幅压力与解放的画像。“第一原则/从卵子开始”系列作品探索了在女性做出个人选择之前，是什么束缚并定义了她们——那就是对“命运”的原型式期待。在这里，卵子成为潜能的隐喻，象征着体内“繁衍”的休眠可能性。对某些人来说，这是一种渴望的本质；而对另一些人来说，这是一种强加的命令，一种深切挫败的根源。

The broken egg is a moment of truth.

鸡蛋破碎的时刻，才是真相大白的时刻。

A point where the potential becomes actual, but not always in the expected way. This can be an act of creation (the birth of a new life) or an act of creativity (the birth of an idea, a project, a different self). Or it can be an act of protest against this very dilemma.

Resisting the simplistic reading "about motherhood," the series explores the very nature of woman in all its dialectical complexity: fragility and strength, the inertia of matter and the explosive energy of life, expectation and its disruption, sacrifice and self-realization.

Pervushina's painting captures this moment of transformation—painful, unkempt, damp, and glittering. The experience of overcoming frustration is seen here not as a victory, but as a process: to crack, to spill, to change shape, to harden under the intense pressure of circumstances, and, perhaps, to find a new, unique configuration.

这是一个潜能变为现实的时刻，但并非总是以预期的方式呈现。这可以是创造的行为（新生命的诞生），也可以是创造性的行为（一个想法、一个项目、一个全新自我的诞生）。或者，它也可以是对这种困境本身的一种反抗。

该系列作品拒绝将之简单地解读为“关于母性”，而是探索了女性本质中辩证的复杂性：脆弱与坚强，物质的惰性与生命的爆发力，期待与失望，牺牲与自我实现。

佩尔武什娜的画作捕捉到了这一转变的瞬间——痛苦、凌乱、潮湿，却又闪耀着光芒。在这里，克服挫折的经历并非被视为胜利，而是一个过程：在环境的巨大压力下，经历破碎、倾泻、变形、硬化，或许最终会找到一种全新的、独特的形态。

"First Principle/Ab ovo" is a powerful statement about where everything truly begins: with the recognition of one's own primordial essence, whole and damaged, desired and frightening.

“Ab ovo”有力地表明了一切真正开始的地方：认识到自己的原始本质，完整而又残缺，既令人渴望又令人恐惧。