1995, Ukraine
In her artistic practice, Inna investigates the transformation of authentic imagery through color and versatile composition.
The artist endeavors to find the deep-laid Ukrainian cultural code through the prism of her personal feelings to identify what place Ukrainian modern art occupies in the global art arena. Inna Kharchuk deals with such issues as self-identification in society, individual and collective memory, experiences, and reflections. She researches 'ancestry' and 'family,' i.e., essential matters in the context of the events happening in the country, which, in turn, characterize the series of works created by the artist.
The figurative abstraction of the painter combines the elements of realism with pure spectrum colors, which beneficially fuse via artistic experiments. In the context above, these artistic elements become the reminiscence of Ukrainian culture in the artwork. While creating the artwork, the painter uses archive photographs to thoroughly investigate female, unique, historical Ukrainian costumes and the context of the situation when the particular picture was taken.
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