Untitled Painting

I was born and raised in Ukraine, and the surrounding post soviet reality has significantly influenced the formation of my sensibility and development. My painting practice began with a combination of Ukrainian naive art, folk aesthetics, kitsch, and graffiti. My starting point was centred around working with found materials, and soon after encountering contemporary technologies, they made me realize their significant impact on the future development of painting, and I absorbed those into my vocabulary. I am interested in working with digitization and the painting medium, combination of the two upon which the dramaturgy of my works is built. Balancing between eastern heritage and western influances I am striving to establish my personal language and identity. I pose a complex question: what should contemporary painting look like while remaining within the classical convention of the picture? I poetise the rapid change and fragmentation of contemporary life, where survival leaves almost no room for long reads. In my paintings, elements torn from their context are composed into polyphonic narratives that freeze against an unfilled or abstract background, reflecting the uncertainty and complexity of envisioning future developments. I create works that I find lacking in the world because I believe that in art, what matters is not the ability to convey the essence of the observed object but the ability to convey our feelings towards the observed object. I strive to achieve the effect where such a traditional medium as painting is endowed with modesty, conceptual-visual lightness, and the taste of new energy, which I would like to leave as a memento in the world of things.