About Svitlana Levchenko
Svitlana Levchenko was born in Odessa in 1983, where in 2006 she graduated from the Academy of Refrigeration. She started taking pictures around 2014, after which she was selected for a photographic course by 'Bird in Flight', studied at the school of Victor Marushchenko, in the course 'Conceptual Photography' with Roman Pyatkovka and finished the MOMA online course 'Seeing Through Photographs'.
Since then she has participated in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Kiev. She also published the photobook 'God is an Artist', which in 2016 was presented at Polycopies in Paris and at the Vienna Photobook Festival in 2017.
Apart from her work in photography, Svitlana is currently also a social media manager at the Odesa Photo Days festival and is a co-owner of the art studio "Ф Р А К Ц И Я" in Kiev.
YATFTIL | You Are The Fear That I Lost | 2018
'The woman is the basis of the Universe. The core of the Universe wrapped in the dirty rags of stereotypes, social roles, imposed ideals, nurtured complexes. All this stuff splits the True Woman.'
In most cultures today, the female identity is being continuously distorted by a complex set of systems, expectations, stereotypes and taboos. In her recent work YatFTIL Odessa-born Svitlana Levchenko looks deeper into these self-imposed prisons we create for ourselves through a series of visual metaphors and self-portraits.
Svitlana Levchenko was born in Odessa in 1983, where in 2006 she graduated from the Academy of Refrigeration. She started taking pictures around 2014, after which she was selected for a photographic course by 'Bird in Flight', studied at the school of Victor Marushchenko, in the course 'Conceptual Photography' with Roman Pyatkovka and finished the MOMA online course 'Seeing Through Photographs'.
Since then she has participated in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Kiev. She also published the photobook 'God is an Artist', which in 2016 was presented at Polycopies in Paris and at the Vienna Photobook Festival in 2017.
Apart from her work in photography, Svitlana is currently also a social media manager at the Odesa Photo Days festival and is a co-owner of the art studio "Ф Р А К Ц И Я" in Kiev.
YATFTIL | You Are The Fear That I Lost | 2018
'The woman is the basis of the Universe. The core of the Universe wrapped in the dirty rags of stereotypes, social roles, imposed ideals, nurtured complexes. All this stuff splits the True Woman.'
In most cultures today, the female identity is being continuously distorted by a complex set of systems, expectations, stereotypes and taboos. In her recent work YatFTIL Odessa-born Svitlana Levchenko looks deeper into these self-imposed prisons we create for ourselves through a series of visual metaphors and self-portraits.
I have always admired the human body. The way a person uses it, not in a purely physical sense, but as a way to communicate with the world. This is the common theme of my work.
