I live and work in Kyiv, where I am a contemporary artist whose practice explores how time changes memory and how personal experience shapes our perception of the world. I focus on moments of change, when the familiar becomes unfamiliar and familiar images acquire new meanings. My artistic practice is deeply shaped by the experience of living through war, motherhood, and attempts to maintain a connection with myself in a changing reality.
Combining drawing with hand embroidery using red thread, I reinterpret familiar images of nature, home, and human experience, exploring how fragility, loss, hope, and the search for support intertwine within them. I currently work primarily on paper, using graphic materials and textile elements. The line, punctures, and red thread become part of a visual language in which the process of creation itself takes on particular significance. Through these materials, I explore how personal experiences transform familiar images and what remains of them after loss, rupture, and attempts to restore a connection with oneself and the surrounding world.
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Paper doll as a metaphor for femininity — about a woman and society's expectations: a relationship nobody asked if you wanted to enter, but there's no way out of it either. At the center of the composition is a figure made of tracing paper and gouache, surrounded by a lattice and flowers, as if in a display window where everything is visible except the exit.
For years, it was carefully explained: your good qualities are worth nothing, while the smallest flaw deserves a microscope and a scolding. And you, the obedient student, took such thorough notes that you eventually became your own strictest supervisor. Now the outside critics can rest — you'll manage on your own. The resource called "being a woman" ran out yesterday, and yet the result, of course, is expected to be nothing short of perfect — otherwise it doesn't count. As if you weren't a living woman with nerves and exhaustion, but a carefully starched paper doll, obediently ready to hold any role without a single crease.
I live and work in Kyiv, where I am a contemporary artist whose practice explores how time changes memory and how personal experience shapes our perception of the world. I focus on moments of change, when the familiar becomes unfamiliar and familiar images acquire new meanings. My artistic practice is deeply shaped by the experience of living through war, motherhood, and attempts to maintain a connection with myself in a changing reality.
Combining drawing with hand embroidery using red thread, I reinterpret familiar images of nature, home, and human experience, exploring how fragility, loss, hope, and the search for support intertwine within them. I currently work primarily on paper, using graphic materials and textile elements. The line, punctures, and red thread become part of a visual language in which the process of creation itself takes on particular significance. Through these materials, I explore how personal experiences transform familiar images and what remains of them after loss, rupture, and attempts to restore a connection with oneself and the surrounding world.
