Diana Zvarun
b. town of Peremyshliany, Ukraine, 1995
y. active 2010 - present
Code of a Nation
textured paste, acrylic on a fiberboard, 7 x 8 in
Created on April 18, 2022
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See all of the works in the exhibit HERE
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At the time of painting, the artist was in the town of Peremyshliany in western Ukraine. She did not have to flee and continued to work in her home.
$400
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Art accompanied Diana since kindergarten. In high school she always helped with everything connected to design and particularly the visual arts. Although choosing a different profession, Diana has now decided to take her talent to a new level and pursue art more seriously with this work being the first that has traveled outside Ukraine.
Over centuries the practice of decorating shirts with intricate embroidery became so ingrained and important in Ukraine that this part of female and male dress gained its own name - vyshyvanka. Each region of the country has its own style of embroidery with unique ornaments and designs. In modern days in Ukraine there is an attempt to represent words or even phrases through embroidery. In this work one “x” represents one lone standing Ukrainian, but if there are many of those “x”es, together, the intricate and rich fabric of the nation with ancient traditions and national pride reveals itself. Banded together all of them form this very design that “decoded” reads the word Ukraine.