Nastasya Kharytonova is a Ukrainian visual artist working across drawing, painting and sculpture.
Working with painting as her preferred media. Nastasya’s visual universe is populated by elements that are tender and gory at the same time. The style, characterized by nervous pencil strokes and bright paint color fields, is reminiscent of children’s drawings. This childlike atmosphere is disrupted by smudges of color reminiscent of blood, barred eyes, livid faces and hands, and blurred, shadowy backgrounds. Her paintings crystallize childhood memories, blooming gardens, ethereal creatures perturbed by feelings of fear and violence. Dreamlike atmospheres house images captured from everyday reality, as experienced by the artist herself, remembered and transformed by the process of their understanding and acceptance (or not).
Recently, Nastasya started exploring the use of clay and glaze to create uncanny, organic agglomerations that could remind of parts of bodies and organs.