Paintings
and objects

‘..O brave Falcon! In the battle with the enemies you bled... But there will be time - and drops of your hot blood, like sparks, will flash in the darkness of life and many brave hearts will ignite a mad thirst for freedom and light! You may be dead. But in the song of the brave and strong in spirit you will always be a living example, a call to the proud to freedom, to light!'

- Maxim Gorky, 'Song of the Falcon'

The ‘Dreams About Russia’ is  series that began as an act of self-help — a way to process the emotional shock following the outbreak of war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Initially rooted in personal grief and helplessness, the project has gradually evolved into a broader reflection on forced emigration, the condition of women during wartime, internal fractures within Russian-speaking communities, and the fragile persistence of political hope.

The works examine the connections between personal, familial, and collective trauma, documenting the psychological and ideological consequences of war, propaganda, and exile.

For example, Mum, How Are You? — “Mom, How Are You?”, with the inscription embroidered in pearls hidden under transparent organza: “Let’s not talk about it,” — reflects a personal and widely shared experience among anti-war Russians: political estrangement within families.

Another work, Everything is Forever (..until it ends), is inspired by the final words of playwright and political prisoner Evgenia Berkovich during her sentencing.

The Dreams About Russia project includes:

• mixed media objects: Russia Will Be Free, Russia Will Be Happy, ‘Mum, How Are You?’, Everything is Forever, Foreign agent, Bad times, F*ck and Laugh,
• ceramic mini-series: Chocolate Medals (Traitor to the Motherland, Foreign Agent, For Services to Humanity),
• paintings: Resistance is Useful, Sad Sex, Trash Filter,
• works on paper: It’s Me, One Month and Two Days (mini-series), Unknown Centre.

The project began as a manifestation of my personal exploration of my body — its (dys)functionality, sexuality — and later expanded to address the social constraints surrounding female corporeality and the urgent issues raised by fourth‑wave feminism.

Within this project, I examine the tension between social vulnerability and defiance, the strength of resistance, through the prism of my own body and mind.

I investigate female corporeality through the lens of systemic and political violence inflicted upon women, as well as the ways in which art can become a space of resistance and empowerment.

Drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by my legal education (BA and MA in Law) and 8 years of practice as a litigation lawyer, my work interrogates how bodies — particularly women’s — become contested territories under systems of control.

The series includes:

• mixed media objects: Womb Chandelier, Deep Breath,
• ceramic Power of Life,
• paintings: Dancing with Shiva, Sanguis. Corpus. Vita, diptych My Body - My Choice, The Wailing Wall, Madonna Mudra, Internal Censor,
• works on paper: I like this one, Compromat, Men's Dressing Gown.

AI (Autistic Identity) is a project grounded in the exploration of neurodiversity and self-perception following a late-in-life diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), alongside generalized anxiety and depressive disorders.

Like many autistic women, I received my diagnosis in adulthood, classified as “high-functioning.” Still, it marked a turning point — forcing a re-evaluation of my entire life and reframing long-held traits through the lens of neurodivergence.

The project reflects an ongoing process of adaptation to neurotypical societal norms and a search for boundaries between identity and diagnosis. It also aims to reduce stigma surrounding autism and other forms of neurodivergence by offering an insider perspective through art.

The series includes:

• The Way — a self-portrait series reflecting inner states of mind,
• Spikes #1–5 — a reflection on compulsive patterning behaviors often associated with ASD and ADHD,
• I Don’t Know. I’m Feeling — a painting about the tension between reason and emotion,
• There is no free time - a painting about about the feeling of time, the memory of death and the price of mistakes,
• and earlier works that became precursors (embroidery on paper): Beyond the Gaze, Dopamine Knot.