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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 things that usually annoyed me - in puddles. That's how I discovered the world of reflections, made my first photo projects, and felt the joy of seeing beauty in the ordinary.
In moments of searching, I turned to abstraction, and later started creating metamorphoses - kaleidoscopes of images and ornaments.
Currently, 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...
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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 is important. 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, living technique that does not allow complete control. But then I moved on to abstraction and began to explore internal 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 internal 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 allowing it to dissolve or destroy me.
Now I am expanding my search. I am in dialogue with artificial intelligence. I named it Guy (The Spirit of the forest of my thoughts) and made it a co-author: together we create stories about my works, exploring how they can live in interaction with digital thinking.
My language is images. Through conversations with algorithms, I find text that complements my works, helping to feel them even deeper.
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