"Suspended in the City" Painting

Represented by Art Voyage Gallery Switzerland. Based in Croatia. Series: Architecture of Memory, Adulthood, Fantasy, Human in the City, Euphoria. Works held in private collections in Ukraine, Austria, Croatia and Poland. Svitlana Zezekalo (b. 1974, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a contemporary artist based in Karlovac, Croatia. Svitlana is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Karlovac (ULAK, Croatia). Her practice is a profound exploration of architectural permanence, the metaphysics of space, and the layers of human memory. Growing up between the vast pine forests of rural Ukraine and the monumental urbanism of Kyiv, Svitlana developed an early fascination with form and structure, initially expressed through sculpture and painting. Although life’s exigencies momentarily led her away from the studio, a series of profound personal transformations and the onset of war in 2014 brought her back to the canvas. For Zezekalo, art became a vital tool for structuralizing complex emotional experiences and historical shifts. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Svitlana relocated to Croatia, where the historical, baroque textures of the city of Karlovac provided a new visual language for her work. Her current series, "Architecture of Memory," marks a shift towards deconstructive abstraction. Working primarily with a palette knife on black canvases, she explores the dialogue between the solid reality of stone and the fluid, vanishing nature of time.