Sazha Gazovaya

My art is a conversation with myself. It begins with an impulse - an image, a feeling, or a question that cannot be ignored. I don’t adhere to a single theme, style, or technique - everything depends on where I am, what I feel, and what needs to be expressed.

I describe my approach as “surrealistic realism”: my works are rooted in real experiences and objects, but reality in them is refracted through internal perception. Life itself feels surreal to me - and it is through this lens that I’m able to speak about things that are difficult to express directly: anxiety, longing, childlike vulnerability, a sense of loss, the search for shelter, or the uncovering of what often remains unnoticed.

For me, material is never secondary. Sometimes, the surface itself suggests what should emerge on it. An old carpet, for example, may become a space for memory, imagination, grief, or infinity. What matters is not only what I depict, but how it feels - physically, honestly, and personally.

Biography
Sazha Gazovaya (Varvara Chorna) is an artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She was born in 2001. She began her education at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, where she studied photographic art and visual practices. Later, she received a bachel...

2023 – H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University – Bachelor in Graphic Design
2018–2021 – Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts – Photographic Art and Visual Practices

2023 – Group exhibition, MACVAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Vicente Aguilera Cerni), Vilafamés, Spain
2022 – Art of Resistance, Municipal Exhibition Hall Casino Lliberal, Algemesí, Spain
2022 – Art of Resistance, University of Valencia, College Major Rector Peset, Valencia, Spain
2019 – Mesopotamia, book-art project based on Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry, exhibited at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Collections
2023 - Museum of Contemporary Art Vicente Aguilera Cerni (MACVAC), Vilafamés, Spain