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Shakhmuradova-Tanska Sana
“During the first three months in the village, I didn’t have any materials, so I painted on all the surfaces I found without priming them. The material itself took over a lot, and I adapted to it. So in the case of sackcloth – at first I saw a square patch and thought about the heart that the war tears out and then sews back in: perception will never be the same as it was before, and there is nothing left but love.”
Sana Shakhmuradova-Tanska is an artist born in 1996 in Odesa, Ukraine.
She spent much of her childhood in a village in Podillia and in the city. She graduated from ballet school in 2010 and her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 2013, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from York University in 2020.
In 2020, she decided to move to Kyiv, where she continues to work on painting and drawing and research her ancestry, often using trauma as a method of communicating with her ancestors.
Her artistic practice usually involves working with oil on various surfaces, as well as gouache and pastels on paper. Her paintings have recently been presented at the DHAKA Art Summit in Bangladesh, Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, and the EVA International Biennial in Limerick, Ireland.
She lives and works in Kyiv.