Natalia Tykhoniuk

I was born in a city that no longer exists as it was. Mariupol — once sea and sand, now
ash and absence. Yet even what disappears leaves its trace. That trace is what I follow. I
live now in Zurich, but my hands still carry the earth of elsewhere. I grind straw, soil, bark,
ash into matter that resists beauty. These are not materials chosen—they are what
remains. I am close to Arte Povera, because in the poverty of matter lies genius: the truth
that nothing is too small to hold memory. I am close to wabi-sabi, because time itself writes
through imperfection, through cracks, through silence. My vessels and wall pieces are not
objects. They are witnesses. Companions of dust and silence. Fragile, yet enduring. They
stay when all else is gone.

Member of Visarte Zürich (Switzerland) — Swiss national committee of AIAP, affiliated with UNESCO
Member of Visual Artists Association (VAA), London
Art School Education, Ukraine
Degree in Interior Design, Ukraine

UNFIXED – Virtual Group Exhibition by Ambrose Creatives.
2026. Location: Kunstmatrix Virtual Art Space (360° Online Exhibition). Vilnius, Lithuania.