The most effective form of control is the one that feels like a choice. 

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My practice responds to contemporary political and social dynamics, examining how visual and verbal archetypes shape collective beliefs.

As a British-Ukrainian artist, I grew up amid rewritten histories, collapsing ideologies, cultural erasure, Chernobyl, shifting borders and multiple displacements. These experiences taught me to read power not as distant authority—but as something embedded in symbols, routines, and the stories we inherit.

At the core of my work is an interest in how identity is constructed through visual and verbal rhetoric—particularly within national ideologies and socio-political frameworks. I explore how collective consciousness is shaped through systemic control, repetition, and selective emphasis.

Grounded in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive bias theory, and Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra, my work examines how misinformation becomes architecture: something we inhabit, not resist.

With a background in set design, I treat space, scale, and symbolism as sculptural language. Transparent forms unveil hidden manipulations; raw materials like concrete and metal embody control; oversized, absurd objects parody authority. Humour and symbolic contradiction provoke discomfort and interrupt familiarity.

Lately, I’ve begun integrating kinetic elements to turn motion into metaphor—revealing how repetition, resistance, and interaction shape experience. My sculptures don’t aim to explain—they expose. What seems familiar may be the most dangerous fiction of all. There is no truth, only perspectives.