TANYA PODUBIENKO

 ARTIST STATEMENT  


My practice is a conversation with the body, memory, and visual stereotypes. I observe reality and try to break it down into the smallest particles — of experience, emotion, and memory.

In my projects, I often turn to corporeality — as an archive, a map of lived experience, a space for both political and intimate expression. I’m interested in how we look at ourselves when no one is watching; what we hide, what we highlight; how culturally imposed images shape our perception of the real body.

My visual language blends the naïve, the provocative, and the sentimental. Through color, irony, and visual exaggeration, I reclaim my own way of seeing. I’m drawn to the search for authenticity — even when it leads through play, vulnerability, or inner contradictions.