Oleksandra Dementieva

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15 Works · 2020 – 2024

Painting, performance, installation, video, photography and text — a journey from darkness to light, where pain and trauma transform into sources of strength, resilience and beauty.

Poster for the Festival Off Avignon 2024: a colorful fish as a contemporary symbol of peace
Poster Festival Off Avignon — Competition WinnerPoster · 2024
Ficus — vibrant painting of a ficus plant
FicusPainting
From Ruin to Resilience — the artist with paint-covered hands crossed over her face, documenting the improvised painting made in her destroyed home in Irpin
From Ruin to ResilienceMixed Media · 2022
Tree of Life - two fabric panels painted with red Ukrainian folk motifs of flowering trees in vases
Tree of LifePainting
PTSS — the artist photographed nude in a white space beside a shattered mirror, holding a plate, referencing kintsugi
PTSSPhotography
Irpin — Scorched Earth: the artist painting with white paint on a scorched rooftop at sunset
Irpin — Scorched EarthMixed Media · 2022
Anticipation — installation view: the blindfolded artist in embroidered shirt on a staircase, red fabric flowing down from the red painting above
AnticipationOil · 2021
Abstractions — abstract canvas in pink, violet, blue and green
AbstractionsSeries
Canvas — Protea: painting of a protea flower on a black background, on an easel
CanvasSeries
Pandemia — painting of a pregnant woman frozen in anticipation
PandemiaPainting · 2020
Le Facteur ISRS — exhibition view with stone-textured garments, photographs and a video monitor
Le Facteur ISRSInstallation · 2020
Miracle — nine photographs of a single flower's life and death, installed above the dried flower on a white stool
MiracleInstallation · 2020
Flowers Composition — bouquet with peonies, ranunculus and columbines against a dark red wall
Flowers CompositionSeries
Klimt — hand-painted photo backdrop with birds and flowers on gold, after Gustav Klimt
KlimtCommission
Iconic — icon painting in progress with a gold-leaf halo
IconicPainting