Online Exhibition
THE AGRONOMY OF PERSONALITY.
SOWN CANVASES
Online Exhibition
THE AGRONOMY OF PERSONALITY.
SOWN CANVASES
The online exhibition “Agronomy of Personality. Sown Canvases” presents cycles of works by Yuliia Chaika, in which the field becomes her inner landscape.
Here, painting emerges at the intersection of nature, creativity, and the artist’s personal world.
ZOLI gallery presents the artist’s works in which her own distinctive artistic language is gradually taking shape.
Artist’s Words
The work of an artist is deeply connected to that of a scientist: a life built on observation, analysis, and conclusions.
Reflecting on my own artistic practice,
I began to notice an association between the movement of my творчість and the cycles of a field.
This is how the idea for this exhibition emerged.
The field should not be perceived as a landscape, but as a state of the soul - an interpretation of life in which different stages of growth unfold, the most important of which is rooting oneself within an ecosystem.
The sacredness of this process lies in closeness to nature:
the closer we are to nature, the closer we are to ourselves.
Here, painting ceases to be merely an image - it becomes an act of interaction between a human being, the earth, and the viewer.
The works created at different periods reveal different stages of growth.
They do not tell a single story - they show the process of becoming: myself as an artist and as a person.
Such a vision of the world always returns us to life -
to the possibility of new growth and a renewed understanding of ourselves.
I am a visual artist, born and raised in Kyiv.
Currently, I live and work in Spain.
I received my professional education at the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design.
My artistic path has been shaped through the combination of several disciplines:
● Jewelry craftsmanship and artistic metalwork, which trained my attention to subtlety and detail;
● The practice of enamel art, where every layer carries meaning;
● Icon painting, which introduced me to the unique principles of Byzantine sacred art.
The combination of an academic foundation, jeweler’s precision, and the canon of icon painting became the basis of my visual language.
This exhibition is structured as a sequence of significant periods in Yuliia Chaika’s artistic journey.
Each section represents a distinct stage that gradually brought the artist closer to her present visual language.
At the end of the exhibition, you will encounter the very first painting - the work from which it all began.
We invite you to immerse yourself in this story and, within Yuliia’s field, discover something of your own - something personal.
LOOSENING THE SOIL OF KNOWLEDGE
Period I
This is a moment of accumulation: books read, visual impressions, and chance conversations begin to shape the artist’s inner ground.
She steps away from academic conventions and dares to begin creating her own visual language.
It is the loosening of the soil -
the state before the beginning of all life cycles of the field, when old forms are broken apart to make space for the new.
"Contemplation in a Headscarf" 2021
"Woman–Amphora" 2021
Period I
This is a moment of accumulation: books read, visual impressions, and chance conversations begin to shape the artist’s inner ground.
She steps away from academic conventions and dares to begin creating her own visual language.
It is the loosening of the soil -
the state before the beginning of all life cycles of the field, when old forms are broken apart to make space for the new.
"Contemplation in a Headscarf", 2021
"Woman–Amphora", 2021
To be an innovator is frightening, yet it is a true discovery - the moment of my birth as anARTIST.
This period is not about results, but about the courage to allow oneself uncertainty.
It is here that a personal artistic style begins to take form.
The field is still empty, yet already filled with potential.
SOWING
Period II
The year 2022 becomes a point of inner rupture.
The artist accidentally purchases what turns out to be a far from accidental album with black paper - and it is within this darkness that she begins to construct a new visual language. Drawing becomes a way to maintain balance in a time of collective anxiety for people and places that suddenly reveal their fragility.
Turning to the tradition of icon painting,
where hands hold a distinct status within the composition, opens for the artist a possibility to create a dialogue with her inner self and with the viewer.
The hand becomes a sign of presence -
a proof that the connection between people endures even in the midst of fear.
"Pose No. 5”, 2022
"Dream Matrix", 2022
Period II
The year 2022 becomes a point of inner rupture.
The artist accidentally purchases what turns out to be a far from accidental album with black paper - and it is within this darkness that she begins to construct a new visual language. Drawing becomes a way to maintain balance in a time of collective anxiety for people and places that suddenly reveal their fragility.
Turning to the tradition of icon painting,
where hands hold a distinct status within the composition, opens for the artist a possibility to create a dialogue with her inner self and with the viewer.
The hand becomes a sign of presence -
a proof that the connection between people endures even in the midst of fear.
"Pose No.5”, 2022
"Dream Matrix", 2022
THE MATURING OF SCALE
Period III
The artist declares herself:
“I am.”
She moves toward larger formats and begins to perceive art as both a discipline and a responsibility.
A new theme emerges — labor and the earth:
hands as the point of encounter between the human being and the soil, the shared fruit of their interaction.
"Admiration", 2022
"The Hottest Month of the Year. Harvest", 2023
"I Am", 2023
Art is my greatest responsibility.
The field has already been sown - now begins the time of contemplation.
The more significant the idea of a work becomes, the larger the canvas the artist chooses.
HARVEST
Period IV
The most productive period of the artist - a space of contemplation and reimagining.
She returns to school literary works she once loved, stories that once seemed unbearably tragic, and in her imagination changes their endings, reworking the narratives to imprint a different experience.
Through a form of fairy-tale therapy, art becomes a way to transform deeply rooted perceptions of an inevitably difficult fate.
By reshaping these stories, the artist creates light that moves through shadows and absorbs the colors of her experiences.
The works speak of the past, the future, and the present -
and through this, a space for inner healing emerges.
“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, 2023
"In the Apple Orchard", 2023
"Guardian of the Harvest", 2024
"Adam and Eve", 2024
ARCHITECTURE OF THE FIELD
Period V
This is a transitional period in the search for a new rhythm.
The artist becomes fascinated by Spanish motifs and ornamentation - opening a new breadth of feeling.
"My Spanish Side", 2025
"Sunrise", 2025
Period V
This is a transitional period in the search for a new rhythm.
The artist becomes fascinated by Spanish motifs and ornamentation - opening a new breadth of feeling.
"My Spanish Side", 2025
"Sunrise", 2025
At the same time, an interest in chess emerges - a game that mirrors life.
Two mirrored works appear as variations of the same concept.
They reflect on how decisions shape the future and how the field of life changes depending on the move that is chosen.
"Choice", 2025
"Model of Life", 2025
At the same time, an interest in chess emerges - a game that mirrors life.
Two mirrored works appear as variations of the same concept.
They reflect on how decisions shape the future and how the field of life changes depending on the move that is chosen.
"Choice", 2025
"Model of Life", 2025
I am learning to play chess and notice how the game reflects life - each move influences strategy and choice both on the board and beyond it.
This period speaks about the awareness of personal decisions.
The field is no longer only a space of experience -
it becomes a space of strategy.
Epilogue - Return
Self-portrait from which it all began
This self-portrait marks the point of birth of the artist’s personal style.
The work appeared during emigration as an attempt to understand the feeling of lacking a home.
The ornament of an ancient tapestry, traditional clothing, and a chestnut flower -
a symbol of the artist’s city of birth - create a personal interior of memory.
The ironic image of a “photo in front of a carpet” transforms here into the first conscious gesture of the artist’s visual language.
The self-portrait was created on the day when I was trying to understand what I was missing in emigration…
It was precisely from this moment that the first steps of my artistic style began to form - from a reflective state of mind.
The entire route of the exhibition is a journey of sowing the field with experience, and the self-portrait remains its first seed.
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