Kuzyura Olha
More about the artist
From the “Loss” series
From the “Loss” series
Paper, blind embossing, 20 х 13 см, 2023
Biography
Olha Kuzyura was born in 1990 in Mostyska, Lviv region. In 2013 she received a Master’s degree in Design at the National University of Forestry. From 2013 to 2016 she studied in postgraduate school at Lviv National Academy of Arts. She has been a Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2017. Winner, of the second special prize in the Young Ukrainian Artists' competition MUHi 2021.
She works with visual arts, text, in the fields of experimental and traditional graphics, painting, installation. She is an author and participant of numerous projects in Ukraine and abroad, in particular in the USA, Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia. She has experience working in international residences in Ukraine and abroad. In her artistic practices she turns to autobiographical motives in the context of collective self-consciousness. Working with the phenomena of collective and individual memory, she explores the gaps in her own history. She lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine.
Description
Paper, as a carrier of information, is a document that, despite its fragility, can give significance. It preserves the baggage of intellectual and cultural heritage. It is on paper that we certify our birth, baptism, and death. Paper can give a spatial dimension to memory. It manifests the materiality of the immaterial in such an intense calm. This material is burdened with sacred meanings and is capable of renewing the sense of spatial and bodily dimensions in our existence.
