"004" Drawing

Tamara Hridyayeva — Lviv artist, lecturer at the Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ph.D), who works in the latest authorial synthetic media, installations, and action practices. She explores virtual reality as a territory that changes our understanding of nature and the sense of space-time. For her, space is a certain coordinate system where objects from the environment are simplified and acquire the characteristics of symbols, as it been in our folk art since ancient times.

She believes that the new «information society», which perceives any information in synthesis, requires simplification of form and purification of the communication process itself. Then the context becomes transparent and open to change. Tamara's spatial constructions have a stated possibility of deforming the plane and the space around it.

The works «Round Gardens», «Pyramids», «Fields», and «Flowers from Ukraine» are part of the exhibition project, which was completed during 2019-2025. All works are a certain stylization of living nature and are united by an abstract-geometric search: the Carpathians are presented in the form of triangles; gardens, flowers, fields - through a schematic round or rectangular image.

Some of Tamara's objects have a history of temporal continuity, or «temporal reversal»: they record different variants of form as the artist modifies them with each exhibition project («Construction Process», «50/50», and also «Representation1.5.»); or reveal the artist's original view of the world's past through the prism of local observations that remain in the form of signs and symbols («Fragment of a Quote», 2008).



Over the last several years, my art was acquired by multiple museums and private collectors, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, Zaporizhya National Museum, Lviv National Museum of A. Sheptytsky, 2007-10 Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine V. Vovkun and other private collectors of Ukraine, Germany, France, Poland, Lithuania and Canada. A more detailed description of my awards, exhibitions, education and experience is attached, together with the photographs of the proposed art.

Below you will find the descriptions of the technique, the theme and the artistic context of the proposed works. I would very much like to hear your feedback as I hope for our future collaboration.