Ilya BOGDANOVICH (b. 1998), War, 2022

acrylic, canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Ilya is an artist originally from Belarus, from the town of Lelchytsya. On a daily basis, he fulfills the need to create by creating hairstyles in one of Warsaw's salons. In art, the artist has no prejudices: he uses all possible materials that are suitable for artistic rearrangement. In the artist's collection we can find items that come straight from the streets of Warsaw. His works are characterized by a strong emotional charge. His visual language was heavily influenced by the events of 2020 in Belarus. When atrocities on a massive scale were happening in his native country, the artist used art to say what words lack.