Iurii Denysenkov, Restless, 2020

oil, canvas, 150 x 125 cm

The work "Unsettled" from the series "Aberration of Memory" focuses attention on my personal history and images of loved ones. Using the family archive, catching personal and family memories, I reveal the "deviation" that is inevitable for this process - deviation from the norm, displacement or distortion of information. My name is Iurii Denysenkov, I am an artist. The main themes of my works are memory, time, reality and pseudo-reality. I am mainly engaged in painting. My paintings are a kind of archive of my own memory, I try to capture time. The starting point for creating paintings are photos from the family archive, fragments of films, or objects related to my history. This is an attempt to try to remember something important, to collect things that bother me. I want my work to look like the last frame of a film, torn, overexposed, haphazard, fleeting, with defects and cracks. It is a frame that is considered unimportant, almost destroyed, technically imperfect, because this is what my personal memory looks like in my mind.

Iurii Denysenkov was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1985.
In 2010, she received a master's degree from the Department of Stage Design at the Kiev State Theater of the Kiev State Theater.
Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.
Since 2010, he has been a participant in the Genofond project at Pavlo Gudimov Art Center.
In 2019, he was awarded the first prize in the field of contemporary art OBJECT
ART AWARD 2019.
He works in painting, video and installation.
The main theme of his work is fear, memory and the loneliness of human existence in
urban society.
He lives and works in Kiev.

Major exhibitions:
2022 FULL ROOM, solo exhibition, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv.
2021 MEMORY ABERRATION personal exhibition, painting, White world gallery, Kiev
2020 STAGE personal exhibition, painting, video, SHOKOLADNY BUDINOK national art gallery, Kyiv.
2019 BACKSTAGE, solo exhibition, painting, Art and Conversation Gallery, Berlin
2019 SECOND Biennial of Young Art, Kharkiv
2019 KIJÓW WEEK OF ART, TORONTO CENTRE, Kiev.
2018 BACKSTAGE, solo exhibition, painting, video, Maslo art center,
Khmelnitsky
2017 INSTINct of Existence, painting, Maslo art center, Khmelnitsky.
2017 Instinct, painting, art center Ya Gallery, Kyiv
2016 Shadows of forgotten ancestors, installation, Arsenal, Kyiv
2014 MOKH, painting (together with Andriy Dudchenko, Volodymyr Denisenkov, and Mariya Bykova), UCU Contemporary Art Gallery, Lviv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
2013 Fon ("Background"), solo exhibition, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2011 Genofond Fest, painting, Dnipro
Genofond Pinakothek, painting, Lviv Palace of Art, Lviv