Без Назви III, Із Серії Вівтар Світу Моєї Мрії 2020

Kateryna Lysovenko made this painting titled Без Назви III, Із Серії Вівтар Світу Моєї Мрії in 2024, and those bright blues and pale ochres feel fresh off the brush. It’s interesting how Lysovenko fearlessly dives into representing the human form, those bodies are solid, fleshy, and present. I can imagine her wrestling with the paint, trying to capture the weight and volume of each curve with bold strokes. It takes guts to be this exposed, right? It reminds me of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s raw, honest nudes. There's a certain naivety in the rendering, a kind of directness that bypasses all the usual art-school fussiness. These figures are holding hands, maybe for comfort, maybe for strength. I imagine they are standing, in a dream, at the threshold of some brave new world. It’s all part of that painter’s conversation across time and space, exchanging ideas, challenging norms, and opening up new ways of seeing.