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Calpe,
Spain
[ Gallery Artist ]
Natasha Burenina is a visual artist originally from Ukraine, now living and working on the Costa Blanca, Spain. She builds a recognizable visual world: figures, faces, animals and masks that recur and shift across the work, familiar yet slightly displaced, as if remembered from somewhere that never quite existed. Her paintings work in bold, flat colour and firm line, where figures are held by composition rather than detail.
She works across acrylic painting, mixed media, digital and generative art, and is currently developing her first sculptural pieces in clay. Her practice moves between two open bodies of work: a sea and swimmers series exploring closeness and memory, and an ongoing Minotaur cycle, where the mythological is treated with complete domestic ease. Her originals are held in private collections internationally.
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Some images feel familiar before we have seen them. Some places resemble memories that never happened. I am drawn to this moment of uncertainty, when the unfamiliar feels intimate and the imagined acquires the weight of experience.
I am interested in the possibility that recognition often precedes memory. We encounter something for the first time and yet feel that we already know it. What interests me is this fracture between perception and certainty, where the invented becomes inseparable from the remembered.
Figures, animals, masks and solar forms recur throughout the work — most often in painting — reappearing in different configurations. They do not function as symbols with fixed meanings but as recurring presences within a world that seems to remember itself.
I think of images as carriers of inherited structures: fragments of myth, cultural memory and forgotten narratives. They travel across works, accumulating associations while resisting a single interpretation.
My practice inhabits the space between memory and invention, the lived and the imagined, where something that never happened can still feel impossible to forget.