Biography

The artist was born in 1996 in Ukraine, in the city named Dnipro, and lives in Kyiv, working in visual art with: oil, acrylic, enamel, silkscreen printing, aerosol, mixed media, paper, graphite, photography. In my childhood, I was surrounded by factories, railways, unfinished subway and many other industrial objects. Even after I grew up and moved to a different city, I wanted to find locations to which I got used, their atmosphere. Before the war started, my actual project was a large series of Kyiv subways. At the moment this series is transformed into the theme of a subway as a shelter place, a safe zone from rockets and explosions. The war has changed the perception of many things for Ukrainians. I’d like to show how this experience changed what and why I depict.

Artistic project

«Corridors»
In my recent work, I work with themes of war, seeking refuge, things that changed people's perceptions after the war. I would like to show how this experience changed my themes in art. Before the war, I painted the subway as a mysterious place, a transport for people in big cities and urban locations of the criminal world. For example, tunnels lead somewhere, with a lot of intersections and technical zones, thinking about what they are made for. However, they all have a certain reason for their existence, their function, and their purpose.

The viewer stands in the centre, not yet deciding which path to choose. Each of the paths leads to a new perspective, a depth of space that we do not see in advance. It is very difficult to know which path will be more or less successful, the same, or to stay in place at all. In many places, space and form are deformed. Sometimes there is only one corridor, with light at the end of this tunnel, or vice versa, with darkness. Our reality now only pushes us to think more about the underworld and the continuation of existence underground. These thoughts are difficult to ignore. These are thoughts in parallel about both death and the end, and about life, but in a different reality and conditions. A person tries to adapt to new challenges and new choices in this perspective, the conditions for which are constantly changing.

Format :installation

Size of audience : any size

Specific location : corridors in any space (mine at the moment are in the public building)

Timing / duration : any period