Katya Tishkevich

Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus

Artist statement

With a background in easel and monumental painting, I primarily engage in abstract-figurative painting and drawing, employing oil and watercolour as my mediums. My work explores the emotional depth and communicative clarity of visual language, investigating themes such as death, violence, grief, pain expressed through the agonizing body. Rooted in my personal experiences, reflections, and attitudes, my art aims to evoke specific emotions and nuances of sen- sations, approaching these themes with intensity, while distilling the complexities of the experience of being to the emotional clarity and monumentality of the visual sign. Alternating between watercolour and oil painting, I approach wa- tercolour as embodied reflections and a means to process personal trauma, intertwined with external crises. Spanning a palette from neon pink to clotted, bloody red, I explore the variety of emotional nuances from innocence and naivety to crudity and pain. While in painting I seek to condense multilayered experiences communicated through color signs, carrying meaning inseparately with form. Starting from intuition, inner listening, and somatic response, I rely on singular material extracted from reality, crystallising the form and consciously avoiding appropriation of visual language while insisting on my position as an author. Based on introspective obser- vation, I (de)(re)construct lived and imagined experiences, articu- lating a multitude of sensations through emotionally precise...

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