Larisa Fedorenko

Biography

Larisa Fedorenko was born in 1994 in Poltava (Ukraine), graduated from Poltava National Technical University. Yuri Kondratyuk, specialty "Decorative-Applied Arts" and Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Arts and Design. M. Boychuk on the specialty "Artistic ceramics". Larisa participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: in the Ukrainian Biennale of Art Pottery. V. Krichevsky (Opishne village) and II All-Ukrainian Biennale "Contemporary Art of Fire of Ukraine" (Kyiv). Participated in resident programs and symposiums, in particular in the International Workshop of Art Pottery "Bukovina-2017" and "Bukovina-2018" in Chernivtsi region. Currently living and working in Kyiv.

Works

Materials: chamotte clay mass, milk thinning, wood. The ornamental motifs of Ukrainian embroidery areharmoniously embodied in the symmetrical ceramic composition “Ornament”. In this work, the artist ideas about rural life are embodied as a series of repetitive actions and habits, where the preservation of cultural and ideological traditions is bordered by acute rejection of modern values and opportunities.
The central figure of the diptych is a full face or a pink, a symbol of an eight-beam star. “Roshechka” represents a combination of masculine and feminine principles in the form of direct (Sun) and skew(Moon) crosses. The full body is often depicted on shoulders, Maui raincoats, and above the forehead of the Virgin. That is why this symbol is also called the Star of Mother. In Ukrainian literature, the pinkflower turns into a blossoming rose.