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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic on Canvas
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 59.1x59.1in
About this artwork
"By heart" is a profound exploration of the architecture of loss and an intimate dialogue with the unseen. I visualize the attempt to "grasp" the void and grant it physical form. The restrained palette of gray tones emphasizes the silence of this process, bringing the plasticity of the body to the forefront. It is through the physicality, rendered in subtle nuances of ashen and graphite shades, that I conveye the tension between presence and disappearance.…
While the emptiness slips away, the embrace remains on the canvas as the only anchor. This work is a philosophical statement on the cyclicity of life: everything begins with an embrace, and with an embrace, it ends.
It was presented as part of my personal project "Holding One's Breath" (2025).
It was presented as part of my personal project "Holding One's Breath" (2025).
Yaryna Shumska
Ukraine
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Covered by the Press
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« I work with painting, performance art, installation, and dance. I'm interested in the research of spaces with human presence and looking for situations that reveal dual reality and ambiguity. »
Yaryna Shumska is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gap between performance and abstract painting, creating what she calls an "archive of action."
She is a prize-winning Ukrainian artist whose works have been widely exhibited on a national level, as well as in Poland, France, Spain and the United States. Her artistic geography is truly global, ranging from the Venice International Performance Art Week and Tokyo to Bangkok, Barcelona, and the Arctic Action in Svalbard. A significant place in her practice is occupied by abstract painting from the 2008–2020 period, which served as a foundation for exploring the canvas as a space for "inhabiting" action. In these works, color and texture function not merely as visual elements, but as mediums for internal rhythm and energy. These canvases laid the groundwork for her current practice, where painting is transformed into a direct imprint of physical presence.
She is a prize-winning Ukrainian artist whose works have been widely exhibited on a national level, as well as in Poland, France, Spain and the United States. Her artistic geography is truly global, ranging from the Venice International Performance Art Week and Tokyo to Bangkok, Barcelona, and the Arctic Action in Svalbard. A significant place in her practice is occupied by abstract painting from the 2008–2020 period, which served as a foundation for exploring the canvas as a space for "inhabiting" action. In these works, color and texture function not merely as visual elements, but as mediums for internal rhythm and energy. These canvases laid the groundwork for her current practice, where painting is transformed into a direct imprint of physical presence.