02 May Iuliia Bugaiova
I can stare at the sea forever.
Iuliia is a Ukranian painter, currently living and working in Warsaw, Poland.
Her paintings attempt to capture inner emotional states, and can be seen as a palette of feelings.
As an artist, she is attracted to those non-verbal elements that can describe her experience of inhabiting a place, like the sound of wind playing with water, the smell of petrol, the movement of a body, or the sticky textures of a dead fish in the local store. She tries to capture a certain high-energy enclosed in transgressive acts, processes or events -like the rhythm of waves, wind, stroms, and conflicts.
Her small paintings are created by accumulating multiple layers of material, scratching and painting over again and again. This format allows her to experiment with different gestures and color combinations, whereas bigger formats are used by Iuliia to explore the potential of a certain color, brushstroke or shape in a deeper and more controlled way.
She uses oil-painting as her main element, since it allows her to achieve vivid colors while also combining quick, expressive gestures with slower multi-layered ways of creating textures.
In this collection of works, Iuliia has explored the tones and shades of Blanca. Being her first impression of these surroundings, a landscape soaked in brown, throughout her stay, she started finding and perceiving a rich color palette that got translated into her smaller paintings.
