Artist Statement

Since 2012, I have been working on themes related to the nature of creativity, social and historical justice, and feminism.

My first project, "My Craft" (2015), was an attempt to equate what is traditionally called a craft, specifically the practice of embroidery, with what is called art, such as painting in abstraction and expressionism, etc.

For example, my work "Vereta for Mondrian" was about my attempt to depict a traditional folk woven carpet in the style of Piet Mondrian's painting, aiming to restore the historical and social justice. This reflects the idea that a simple rural woman created the same beauty of an archetypal ornament in blue-red cells as the artist Piet Mondrian. However, we will never know her name, and she will never achieve the recognition that a man from a wealthy and influential country, who had access to art education, exhibition halls, and wealthy clients, achieved.

My second project, "So Natural" (2016), explored the nature of creativity. According to the official doctrine of art history, people sought inspiration in nature to create ornamentation, decorations for architecture, vase painting, clothing, etc. I wanted to experimentally follow this creative path. I gazed at landscapes and looked for corresponding ornamentation in them. For example, in a grapevine, one might see a meandering frieze.

To illustrate this, I used fragments of old embroidery and collaged them onto the canvas of my paintings, placing them where I saw similar patterns in the landscape. I continue this series of works to this day.

"“Ploughland”. Solo exhibition in Green Sofa gallery" (2018) reflects my interest in the ornate lands on the roadside fields I wander. Their geometrically arranged furrows and patchwork gardens, all this beauty of living and plowed earth, organized by humans, remind me even more of the stripes and rhythms of folk embroidery ornaments.

In the project "Embroiderers," I reflected on the future of craft practices.

In the project "Artist in History," I reflected on the possibilities of creative realization depending on the circumstances of birthplace, gender, and historical events.