Ayla Dmyterko

Work

Bread Baskets , 2024

Painting

ON VOLYA , 2023

Liberate Thee, Angel of History , 2023

Rite of Return , 2021

Moving Image

POUR the FEAR , 2021

A woman wearing a wreath made of thin beeswax candles is lit. She stares directly into the camera. Hanging from the wreath are severed braids.

Solastalgic Soliloquy , 2020

Warped Warnings , 2020

A Carpathian region Ukrainian dance costume is compressed beneath a sheet of glass.

Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories , 2020

An installation with paintings, textiles and ladders is shown as a physical collage. The space they sit within is white and lit from above.

Distance of Sea, of Years , 2019

Total Installation
A collaged oil painting, the images are oriented in varying directions. It depicts a set of hands clasping red spotted flowers, a single lit white candle, a woman looking out onto a highway through veiled transparent curatins and a young girl at the table while her mother works in the kitcen behind her.

The Story Began with a Beet (It Must End with The Devil) , 2015

Matryoshka dolls are pulled apart and left scattered on a window sill. Out the window are prairie field fires.

The Dead Leave Us Starving with Mouths Full of Love , 2014

Two archival potographic portraits of a man and woman. On top of the images are fragments of maps and coloured fingerprints.

Impositions , 2012