About

In my art practice, I reflect on how the challenges of the outside world shape the human inner landscape. Focusing on psychological and transitional spaces, indirect communication, and postmemory, I create textile-based sculptures and installations that use metaphor to articulate states of intimacy and vulnerability. I am drawn to the ghost side of history – those unseen or suppressed presences, myths, and figures that continue to influence society from the margins.

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Silence is a central focus of my current research. I approach it not merely as an absence, but as a tool of communication under conditions of censorship and self-censorship. This exploration of boundary states is deeply connected to my experience as a Crimean and a migrant, caught in the friction between conflicting political and cultural forces.

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In parallel, I reflect on the trauma of witnessing war in Ukraine from a distance – an experience mediated by continuous exposure to violence through social media. To render this ongoing psychological tension tangible, I turn to archetypal symbols and the tactile quality of handwork, using labor-intensive processes to document reality through emotion and offer a therapeutic counter-space.

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While I work across multiple media, including digital video and sound, embroidery remains central to my practice. Inherited from my grandmother, this slow, repetitive skill embeds thought and emotion into every stitch, creating a personal mythology. By combining natural and synthetic materials, I reflect on complex environments where nature resists industrial influence, crafting magical realism spaces between the remembered and the silenced.