YANA TSI

I was born in a small town Kerch, Crimea, which belong to different systems: Soviet Union, Ukraine, Russia. The hometown always will stay to be a hometown, but it seems like that can not apply to what they call homeland. 

I’m a nomad in life. I was travelling, changing cities and countries, where my language was broken, I learned to be silent and observe and listen.

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I like to see the beauty in the world, I notice how everything tends to be put into systems. Some systems are natural and some are fake.  I believe that each subject can be turned to an art object. People’s attachments, memories, what we are depending on in material life and how we are attached to the systems built around us - that’s what fascinates me and drives interest for me as an artist. As a passerby I throw my hand through a curtain of the invisible reality, breaking it through and editing it with my touch what’s also can be called a ‘human factor’. 

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I’m fascinated by the studies of ontology of matter and time, space, metaphysics and studies of the genesis. I practise with painting on canvas and casting, my work ends up in the art installations. But while my sketches are done in all the possible art technics, my end projects combine the process documentation of the act of human to the object or mater or time or space and what’s left after this interference. 

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I often question if the system that used to be perfect can be broken whether it will survive as a new metamorphous or it will die because it is not like everything we used to see.