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Leliuk Anastasiia
“Safe Travels” was created in memory of Kurakhove — a city that, like many others in eastern Ukraine, stands on the border between life and destruction. The sculpture resembles a fragment of a road sign or a memorial post, displaced from its place in space. The engraved phrase “Safe Travels” turns into an ironic and tragic farewell to those forced to leave home because of war.
Made of paper, plaster, and acrylic, the work embodies both fragility and density — much like memory itself. This fragment preserves the traces of a space that can no longer be returned to — a marker of loss transformed into a sign of love.
Anastasiia Leliuk (b. 1997, Luhansk) is a multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv.
She primarily works with painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, occasionally incorporating experimental elements such as video, sound, performance, and interactive processes. Her practice reflects on themes of vulnerability, loss, utopias, and the mythologization of the unknown, engaging with personal and local histories, including contemporary experiences of war, displacement, and the traumas they entail. She has participated in residencies and art programs in Ukraine and abroad, and her works have been exhibited in Ukraine, as well as in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Poland, and Japan.
In addition to her own practice, since 2018 she has directed mosaic restoration projects in Kyiv, and in 2025 she became a co-founder of the artist collective 3atyrka.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, a Bachelor’s degree in Management from the IAE Metz School of Management in Metz, France, as well as certificates in Contemporary Art and in Memorialization and Memory Studies from Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (KAMA).
