Young man Drawing

Lilia Kodunova, a Ukrainian-born artist now living in England. Her practice examines the figure as a site where internal psychological states and external social conditions intersect. Through oil and other materials she explores the thresholds between presence and erasure, asking how identity becomes visible, obscured, or felt rather than seen. Figures often appear suspended between inner and outer worlds, occupying emotional states people may not conciously recognize. Lilia’s experience moving from Ukraine to the UK informs her interest in resilience, dislocation, and the body as a container of memory. The figure becomes a vessel for what cannot be spoken directly. She is interested in how vulnerability, introspection, and endurance inhabit the body, and how an artwork can offer a space where that interiority is seen with care and clarity.