ABSTRACTIONS
My personal artworks. Canvas. Acrylic
Series: Streaming landscapes
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In my series of paintings, I create abstract compositions that subtly allude to landscapes and encourage reflection on the complex social process of migration. My abstract landscapes become a metaphor for migration and cultural transformation. Through vivid layers of paint, flowing lines, and patches, I convey fragments of native places, cultural heritage, and memories that intertwine with a new environment, creating dynamic and unique landscapes of identity.
In my technique, I use a multilayered approach. By spreading layers, scraping off parts of the paint, or adding new layers of mixed colors, I create surfaces where each layer interacts with the previous ones, imbuing my work with dynamism and energy, conveying movement and constant change associated with migration. These actions reflect both destruction and adaptation, emphasizing the process of transformation and integration.
Migration encompasses not only numerous political, economic, and cultural aspects but also profound emotional states. My series of paintings is my personal emotional response to this process. My experience of migration inspired me to create these works, through which I strive to convey the emotions of loss, chaos, and integration that inevitably accompany this journey. These emotions highlight the dynamics of changes and the breaking of boundaries—both geographical and emotional.
My paintings create a space where cultural identity is perceived as a living and multilayered process. Each fragment of paint, each break in the lines, becomes part of a global dialogue between cultures, uniting past and present into a single space and revealing the beauty and complexity of cultural exchange and mutual enrichment.
Series: The space of uncertainty
The series of works "The Space of the Uncertainty" is dedicated to contemporary social processes that lead us to a particular perception of reality and reveal a sense of emotional and physical vulnerability of our existence in this contradictory, divided and conflicting world. In this series, I turn to the study of the information field of contemporary society with its high degree of uncertainty and information blurring. The blurring of information is not just a metaphor, but a reality of our time Since the advent of the Internet and social media, the volume of information has increased manifold, posing serious challenges to our society. Reduced trust in information, its source, as well as the rapid change and receipt of ambiguous news and transmitted data. All this creates a constant flow effect, where one event is replaced by another, giving us no time for reflection. Everything is drowned in a set of opinions, contradictions, fragments, understatements, and deliberate distortion. This series of works is also my personal emotional response to these processes in the world. I personally experienced the impossibility of finding reliable information about the situation in my native country Ukraine, to which I cannot return due to military operations. This perception of reality causes me anxiety, instability, feelings of disconnection and disorientation, as it does for many people when they are faced with the perception of information about our reality. I convey all these feelings through paintings in which all the disparate layers and patches of color appear as separate flashes and contradictory layering. All the scattered and jumbled parts of space come together and create a picture of the world that does not allow us to recognize the true nature of things, to discern the real reality and to make sense of these processes by living the events. All the boundaries of events and elements of reality are broken, one thing passes into another, everything collides, there are elements in conflict and symbiosis at the same time. Everything acts dynamically, everything is lubricated, stratified and torn away. All we can observe is a state of chaos on the edge of catastrophe and beauty. In this series I have endeavored to reflect how information chaos affects our perception of reality by revealing the sense of uncertainty, the blurriness of information, the impossibility of immersing oneself in events that are happening simultaneously with us, the state of chaos and turbulence that pervades modern society, where the abundance of information hides a kind of "blindness" and the space of ignorance. Each work in this series invites us to reflect on how we perceive and process information and how it shapes our worldview.
Series: Parts of the space
My paintings “Parts of the space” from the series “The space of uncertainty” are filled with bright, chaotically scattered, multi-colored parts. They convey a metaphorical reflection of such a complex social process as emigration. Emigration covers all aspects of a person’s life, from being forced to leave one’s home due to hostilities to seeking a new life in an unfamiliar country. Emigration is a complex, multi-layered social process that affects millions of people around the world. It includes many political, economic, cultural aspects, as well as deeply emotional states. This Series of paintings is a personal emotional response to this process, revealing simultaneously an emotional sense of loss, chaos associated with displacement, as well as a sense of a new beginning and reuniting with a new. My works not only convey my personal pain due to the hostilities in my home country of Ukraine, my emigration, but also the feeling of uncertainty among millions of people around the world in our turbulent and conflict-filled times. I made the multi-colored fragments of the paintings torn and mixed to reflect the destruction of the familiar world, to show the chaos that invades the lives of people going through forced emigration. Each piece of paint is a unique story, a separate life, torn and scattered, like the fate of emigrants. And at the same time, each of them is part of a global process of movements and changes in world space. All the torn parts in the paintings are on the verge of disaster and beauty. They intersect, collide and become one, creating a new reality. This process is similar to how people from different parts of the world create a new society, woven into the structure of a new country. In my project I created complex and multi-layered works that reflect the reality of emigration as a process of separation and reunification, rupture and restoration. Despite the chaotic elements of my paintings, everything exists in unity, everything is intertwined and creates a single field filled with deep meanings and hopes, which emphasizes the importance of understanding and supporting the emigration process.
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