**Armored Silence** emerges from an encounter with boundaries—physical, emotional, and spatial. Moving between states of home and isolation, body and role, visibility and silence, the series traces how motherhood, migration, and shifting family dynamics redraw the contours of the self.

Mannequins function here not as objects, but as traces of bodily memory: faceless carriers of skin, reflection, and light. Foil, leather, and plastic form a second skin—a capsule, a shield—where protection and disappearance become inseparable. Rather than a linear narrative, the work constructs a psychological space for inner echoes: a tension between concealment and exposure, the need to hide alongside the longing to be seen.

Each image holds intentional incompleteness. Silence becomes material—compressed, armored—until even the question is softer than breath.

Armored Silence

Maturity is the realization of a world in which there is a place not only for joy, but also for a storm. Water and wind are the elements that embody the trials

Water anf wind

The second etching from the series "Aqua Alta". Water that feeds the garden , promotes flowering and represents  the youth. The garden is like a labyrinth in which we are looking for love...

Aqua Alta. Feeding the garden

Pilosophical reflection on the flood as an element capable of giving life and taking away.

Aqua Alta. Giving life water

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JANUARY 2021

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MASHA

EXPOSED

The project explores the nature of emotions through the act of fight. In a brutal male world emotionality is often equated with weakness, but at the same time the very act of struggle, show of strength, close physical contact with an opponent are strong and not restrained expressions of emotion. Brutality and aggression are akin to a scream expressed through the body. Contradiction between the external male emotional restraint and a strong release of emotions create a tangible tension in space and involve the viewer in to a joint comprehension of the primal nature of human expression

INDOOR WARRIORS

The project explores the nature of emotions through the act of fight. In a brutal male world emotionality is often equated with weakness, but at the same time the very act of struggle, show of strength, close physical contact with an opponent are strong and not restrained expressions of emotion. Brutality and aggression are akin to a scream expressed through the body. Contradiction between the external male emotional restraint and a strong release of emotions create a tangible tension in space and involve the viewer in to a joint comprehension of the primal nature of human expression 

SHOWER TRIPTYCH

I was born in a tent in Crimea, at the base of the Manhup mountain. This was no accident, my young parents deliberately traveled to Crimea by train to give birth to me there. Obviously, I don’t remember the first days of my life spent in the wild nature with my mom and dad, just the three of us in a tent, but in my mind it is a perfect little incapsulated, happy world. Thinking of the events of our later lives, relationships between parents and children, contemplating my own future motherhood, I sometimes mentally go back there, to the tent at the base of the Manhup mountain.  This project is about me, my mom and my dad, a fantasy of a perfect family, about all parents and all children, about a starting point and a short moment of unity and happiness.

I WAS BORN IN A TENT 

All this time i tried to watch our lives as a matter of circumstances, but in the end we are what we do and what we choose to do. Our life is a result of our choices and actions.

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