The contemporary Ukrainian art gallery MISTRIKA, in collaboration with Ukrainian Fashion Week, presented the exhibition “The Unlost Paradise” by Ukrainian artist Anastasiia Podervianska. The artist works with textiles, painting, objects, and clothing, reinterpreting fabric and embroidery as a contemporary medium.

Anastasiia Podervianska is a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and a participant in numerous national and international exhibitions, biennials, and art fairs. Her works have been exhibited in Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, including at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Dymchuk Gallery, Triptych Art, White World Gallery, Voloshyn Gallery, and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. The artist is a laureate of the 5th All-Ukrainian Textile Triennial and the recipient of the prize of the 8th WTA Textile Art Biennial in Madrid.

In her works, Podervianska transforms fabric into a living artistic surface where multiple cultural and symbolic layers intersect: folk cosmogony, women’s stories, myths of love, biblical imagery, paradise and hell, angels and demons. Embroidery, appliqué, collage, and fragments of clothing appear not as decorative elements but as a way of thinking through material.

In her art, fabric becomes a meeting place of different eras and cultures — folklore and postmodernity, the sacred and the ironic, the corporeal and the mythological. The world in these works is not merely depicted; it seems to be sewn together anew, gaining texture, color, and new meanings.

Podervianska’s artistic language unfolds at the intersection of Baroque and contemporary aesthetics. It is a Baroque that grows into the present and transforms into meta-Baroque — eclectic, multilayered, and ironic. In this world, paradise cannot exist without hell nearby, love cannot exist without darkness, and femininity cannot exist without a play with masks, demons, and myths.

In the exhibition “The Unlost Paradise,” the artist constructs her own textile cosmos — at once tender and grotesque, intimate and theatrical. Her works speak about existence as a material where the threads of time, history, and human desires intertwine into the complex fabric of life.

PHOTO:  Maksym Lisovoi