mariia Lemperk (Mariia Mytrofanova)

MARIIA LEMPERK (MARIIA MYTROFANOVA) is a visual and performance artist. She graduated in Fine Arts from Grekov Odesa Art School in Odessa in 2018 and completed a BA at the Faculty of Arts and Media at the Pedagogical University of Krakow in 2022. In her artistic practice, mariia Lemperk pursues interdisciplinary, research-based projects in which she reflects on the fragility of human existence in the face of political, economic and climatic changes and explores human connections within family histories and archives. She treats artworks as passages through traumatic experiences that highlight our vulnerability in the face of history. Her current works focus on themes of sexual violence, gynecological oppression of women and the presence of the female body in the political and cultural context of the present. In her artworks, the artist leaves room for a particularly strong presence of her own experience, which is articulated and actualized on the basis of contemporary socio-political contexts.