Maria is an artist who creates painted objects.
Her works are actors that explore personal and civilizational breakdowns, technologization, and everyday experience through a metaphysical vision, symbolic imagery, and invented mythologies.
These actors exist not only within exhibition spaces. They step into public space: at times as deliberately “senseless” glitches that disrupt habitual modes of perception, and at times as interlocutors seeking to enter into dialogue with the environment, its logic, and its inhabitants.
« Nothing is more fiction than reality »
The artist constructs her own mythical world. It may seem escapist, but in fact it seeks to reveal what lies hidden behind phenomena and events. Her practice grows out of sacred traditions of different cultures, particularly icon painting, which proposes an alternative mode of seeing. Maria Vasylenko pays special attention to reverse perspective, which works like a spotlight: the vanishing point of the image is not inside the painting, but at the position of the viewer.
She is deeply engaged with philosophy, exploring how space and time are “given” to human perception, and how images are constructed in consciousness. Avoiding rigid narratives and explanations, she leaves art as an open process without definitive answers — rather a space for inhabiting. Her images often arise illogically, like phantoms or otherworldly beings striving to manifest themselves and enter into dialogue.
Born in 2001 in Kyiv, where she continues to live and work. She studied design, monumental art, icon painting, and philosophy in Kyiv academies and institutes. She develops exhibition projects and participates in a range of artistic programs.
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