PHANTOM-LIKE FIGURES BY MARIA KATYANOVA

"My work embodies inner states of being through contemporary archetypes, enigmatic artifacts, and phantom-like figures that seem to have surfaced by chance from vanished eras."

"They occupy a suspended territory between past and present, between the physical and the virtual."

"These figures can be read as symbols of alienation and solitude within the post-industrial world, or as fragments of a refuge still taking shape: a place where it might yet be possible to hide from an exhausting reality."

"My paintings hold romantic reverie and serenity alongside a quiet, vibrating anxiety, gesturing toward the unpredictability of life's course."

"They dwell in a liminal space, between dream and waking, memory and fantasy, Symbolist aesthetics and the new archetypal images the digital world continuously produces."