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Leliuk Anastasiia
“The Ghost of the Miner’s Cake” is a materialized memory of a vanished tradition, of towns that have lost their collective rhythm.
The cake form, made of paper, glue, and acrylic, appears as a frozen ritual object – festive in shape yet devoid of life. Its white surface erases the boundaries between body, dust, and salt, turning the dessert into an object of remembrance.
The title alludes to the mining regions of Donbas, where celebrations once contrasted the harshness of labor. Here, the “ghost of the cake” becomes a metaphor for a lost of everyday life, suspended in emptiness after devastation.
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).
