"Flower-4" Painting

Tatiana Rusetska
Artist statement

I have often asked myself the question –
what does my art mean to me personally?
And what do I want to tell the world?
I have come to understand that my art is a constant
search for God. Seeing and affirming His presence in everything-
is my main task as an artist.

Metamodern mystery by Tetiana Rusetska

The artistic practice of the Ukrainian artist Tetiana Rusetska has distinctive features of a mystery - a dramatized ritual performance. Her paintings - bright, eloquent, sensual and energetic - appear as a modern sacred object, a metamodern icon in the style of ethno-pop art, both in a specially created exhibition situation and in a private space.

The artist naturally adds works on glass, wall and spatial objects, light installations, musical accompaniment, photo and video projections, and everyday objects to her paintings, turning the direct impression of her works into a voluminous and convincing experience of intense emotions and exalted states. From the outside and at a distance, this experience may seem light and contemplative (in fact, this is what pop art, a style Rusetska often refers to, is inclined to do). However, close contact with her works-at an exhibition or in her studio-immediately reveals their metaphysical dimension and powerful emotional charge, which works primarily at the level of bodily perception-as befits a mysterious action.
Tetiana Rusetska is an artist who thinks and lives in large spaces. After graduating from the Department of Scenography at the National Academy of Arts and Architecture under the guidance of the legendary master Danylo Lider, she mastered visual art as a method of working with space and the viewer's mind. The School of Scenography forms the habit of perceiving each exhibition, project, and exposition as an action with its own drama, purpose, and meaning. Therefore, the tasks set by the artist-director primarily relate to the purpose of creative expression - as an answer to a question: “What should my audience take away from this experience?” In this sense, all artistic objects are part of the environment that shapes experiences and encourages change. Therefore, in her work Rusetska is extremely uninhibited and free, unrestrained in her search and testing of subjects, methods, styles and themes that she collects, combines, collages and layers, because she thinks on the scale of an entire action - a mystery, in fact - rather than a single object.