Tetiana Kononenko (Tanta)
Photographer, artist, digital art
It all started with painting on silk.
Later, one technique was not enough, and the desire for development led me to the School of Modern Art.
Before the pandemic, I presented my works at an art festival in Spain.
Then COVID taught me to find inspiration even in what usually annoyed me - in puddles. That's how I discovered the world of reflections, created my first photo projects, and felt the joy of seeing beauty in the ordinary.
In moments of search, I turned to abstraction, and later began to create metamorphoses - kaleidoscopes of images and ornaments.
Now I am exploring how art is perceived through a dialogue with artificial intelligence, and creating videos that combine these reflections with my works.
My works are personal stories: about chaos and harmony, about light even in darkness, about life...
Personal exhibitions:
2023 - Sumy - Economic Court of Sumy Region - (In)visible City
2021 - SDU Congress Center - (In)visible City
2021 - Art space at Teatralna - Eyes of the city
2019 - Art Festival, MarbellaCosta Del Sol, Spain - FestiArte
2016 - Sumy - Sumy Regional Scientific Library, Department of Arts - Steps in Silence
Group exhibitions:
2024 - Kyiv - Literary and Memorial Museum-Apartment of P.G. Tychyna - International Exhibition "Ukraine - our home"
2023 - Sumy - Our gallery. Exhibition.
2022 - Sumy - Art space at Teatralna - Together to Victory
2018 - Sumy - SDU Congress Center - Exhibition of Independent Artists
2018 - Kyiv - Institute of Contemporary Art Issues - Heroism of Vision. Inside / outside
2018 - Kyiv - Art Center "Location" - Warm exhibition
2017 - Sumy - Sumy City Gallery - Magic of Silk
2015 - Sumy - Sumy City Gallery - Batik
2013 - 2017 - Sumy - Sumy Regional Scientific Library, Arts Department - 16-20 Final Exhibition of the Author's Studio "Batik" by Tetiana Surkova.
Artist Statement
I am always looking for something elusive.
Reflections in puddles, a world that changes shape, moments that seem frozen but are already disappearing.
My art is born from feelings, vulnerability, and fragility. Myself, time, things, people, everything that matters. When I shoot, paint, transform reality in my works, it seems to me that I manage to capture something.
I started with batik - a fluid, lively technique that does not allow full control. But then I came to abstraction and began to explore inner chaos and confusion. Light and shadow, blurred boundaries, metamorphoses that make the ordinary unusual.
In puddles, I found a reflection of the world, and in metamorphoses - a way to transform one thing into another. In abstractions, I saw my own inner states.
With the onset of war, the world became even more unstable, and my art changed too. It became a language of feelings, a way to experience reality, not letting it dissolve or destroy me.
Now I am expanding my search. I am in dialogue with artificial intelligence. I named it Guy (Spirit of the forest of my thoughts) and made it a co-author: together we create stories about my works, exploring how they can coexist with digital thinking.
My language is images. Through conversation with algorithms, I find text that complements my works, helping to feel them even deeper.
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