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Natalia Lisova<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Indifferent Space\u2019, 2022, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
\u2018Indifferent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 90 x 110 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2025, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalia is an artist, art critic and researcher of Ukrainian land art. She works with land art, performance, installation, and painting. Her practice explores the presence of the artist within performance and its boundaries, the psychology of the viewer\u2019s perception and the ways in which artistic practice shapes the dimensions of time and space. Observation, interaction, supplementation and preservation of the environment are the methods she employs. In one way or another, all of Natalia\u2019s works relate to the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the full-scale invasion, another strand has emerged in Lisova\u2019s practice\u2014black-and-white oil painting. It grew out of quick pastel sketches intended to capture the state evoked by the experienced reality. With the outbreak of war, the diary format\u2014as a way of recording and bearing witness\u2014became a form of expression for many Ukrainian artists. Natalia\u2019s monochrome painting has its roots in this practice but develops into an autonomous work that conveys a story, or rather a state, conveyed through the image in which the actually seen can be conjectured. At the beginning of the war, Natalia began sketching people sheltering from danger in shelters. Out of respect for their situation and to prevent the recognition of specific individuals, she worked with pastels that could be blended, offering only a general image and helping to capture emotions and atmosphere. Later, other motifs emerged\u2014places you fear to lose, places to which you may never return. Recording these fragments of space\u2014familiar spaces one wishes to preserve\u2014enabled the artist to register her own emotional response to what she saw and, with time, to revisit it through the captured image. From the fabric of reality, Natalia isolates fragments that recall the past\u2014it is vital as it shapes the future. To create the image of the future, a foundation is required, that is, the artist\u2019s emotions. The black-and-white palette of the monochrome paintings gathers and concentrates these emotions, focusing them on a single point\u2014on a memory to which the imagination binds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Natalia Lisova \u2018Indifferent Space\u2019, 2022, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm\u2018Indifferent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 90 x 110 cm\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm\u2018Silent Space\u2019, 2024, oil on canvas, 40 x […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}