Hunger Painting

Kryvych is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist born in Kyiv, who studied art in both Kyiv and Madrid. Anna explores the mechanisms of human interaction with the world through artistic practice. Her works reveal deeper layers of reality, truth, and existence. She investigates themes of dehumanization, estrangement from nature, and immersion into artificial constructs that distort our connection to the essence of life. By creating visual narratives that resonate with philosophical and apocalyptic concepts, Anna seeks to uncover the hidden forces shaping human experience — particularly through the lens of presence and the exploration of extreme existential boundaries. AS “Through my work, I explore the shifting boundary between the real and the simulated — between the real body and its artificial extinction. I am drawn to moments where physical presence becomes a gesture, a shell, or a trace of what was once direct experience. My practice is rooted in observing how technological environments and constructed realities reshape our sense of embodiment, desire, and memory. I work across painting, sculpture, and object-based installation to reflect on the conditions of posthuman life. In particular, I examine how actions once rooted in awareness — bodily rituals, gestures of care or discipline — are increasingly performed as automatic repetitions within a mediated world. These repetitions, though familiar in form, often lose their connection to meaning. My recent works also engage with themes of posthuman ecology, chromatic surfaces, and speculative forms of future bodies — animals, robots, and hybrid beings caught between evolution and extinction. Whether working with vacuum-sealed objects, metallic skins, or chrome-finished creatures, I seek to capture what it means to exist when nature itself begins to wear a mask. i ask: — What happens to corporeality in a world where everything can be copied? — Can art still function as a site of resistance in a culture of seamless simulation?