Untitled (2024) by Kateryna Kopeikina - subjektiv.art
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Kateryna Kopeikina
Artist from Ukraine
Kateryna Kopieikina was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and in 2017 her artistic practice began with tattooing. Over time, it evolved into a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, performance, and movement. Her practice explores intimacy, displacement, grief, and the psychological consequences of war through personal narratives and symbolic imagery. Blurring the boundaries between reality, myth, and dark fairy tales, she creates emotionally charged works in which tenderness coexists with fear, desire, and loss. Drawing from lived experience and collective memory, her work examines how the body carries trauma and how care, ritual, and imagination become strategies for survival.
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In a room where time seems frozen in the rusty patterns on the walls, she sits, a ghost woman woven from the lines of memories. Her face flickers like a shadow from a long-forgotten dream.
Her wheelchair is not just an object, but a symbol: the wheel spins, but does it lead her forward? Or does it only bring her back to the same places, the same faces? In the corner of the painting lurks another image, a snake, a mocking face without time, without age. It could be her reflection, or the ghost of another's gaze that once evaluated her body, her freedom, her possibilities.
Kateryna Kopieikina was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and in 2017 her artistic practice began with tattooing. Over time, it evolved into a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, performance, and movement. Her practice explores intimacy, displacement, grief, and the psychological consequences of war through personal narratives and symbolic imagery. Blurring the boundaries between reality, myth, and dark fairy tales, she creates emotionally charged works in which tenderness coexists with fear, desire, and loss. Drawing from lived experience and collective memory, her work examines how the body carries trauma and how care, ritual, and imagination become strategies for survival.
