This hands have never stolen anything (2026) 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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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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The work "These Hands have never stolen anything" refers to a well-known phrase by Viktor Yushchenko, said during the 2004 presidential debates with Viktor Yanukovych.
In the work, the hands appear as a separate image of power. They seem to have grown together and are stitched to one another, forming a single shared pose. This gives the phrase about “hands that stole nothing” an ironic meaning — the hands that are meant to demonstrate honesty and innocence become an image of power and its interconnected relationships.
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.
