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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Striking a delicate balance between quiet vulnerability and deep emotional tension, Desire is a conceptual diptych that merges graphite drawing with tactile red hand embroidery on paper. Surrealist symbolism guides the narrative: the left panel depicts a solitary silhouette wearing a snow-white star mask, while the right panel reveals a pair of watchful, star-shaped eyes emerging from velvety graphite darkness. Contrasting bright white forms and crimson stitches create an atmosphere of profound intimacy.
Desire is a complex, contradictory force—one that can evoke unexpected guilt even when born of love. When your deepest wish is simple and deeply personal, such as the recovery of your son, it seems entirely selfless. Yet an internal voice whispers: "With so much suffering around, how can you focus on your own?" In response, an internal filter suppresses raw feelings, releasing only polished, starched dreams into the world. The red thread acts as an exposed nerve and a living seam, stitching private pain together with enduring hope.
Original diptych comprising two individual paper panels (20 × 20 cm each). Rendered in graphite, ink, and hand embroidery on premium age-resistant archival paper. Signed and dated on the reverse, accompanied by an original Certificate of Authenticity. Framing with a mat under protective glass is recommended to preserve the tactile fiber elements and paper structure.
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.
