Original artwork description:

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"My Main Enemy" presents a compelling narrative of self-reflection and inner turmoil. The canvas speaks volumes through the bold imagery of a woman holding her head in her hand, a striking metaphor for self-examination and the internal battles one faces.

The figure exudes a sense of personal strength and fiery introspection, her gaze turned inward. The tattoos of leaves on her body suggest a growth that comes from within, hinting at personal histories woven into her skin. These details, set against a backdrop of subdued earth tones, evoke a feeling of groundedness amid personal upheaval.

The artist employs a style of robust, dynamic brushstrokes, which lends a sense of movement and raw emotion to the painting. The palette is rich and deliberate, with colors chosen to evoke the complexity of the human psyche. Each stroke contributes to the overall theme of the piece: the continual struggle for self-acceptance and understanding.

This piece is a powerful exploration of the theme of self-confrontation, inviting viewers to contemplate their own inner narratives and the strength required to face them.

Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals.

Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home.

Here is what Daria herself says about her works

I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Materials used:

Oil

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