A significant part of my work stems from not daring to call myself one and looking for expressions outside of what I imagined was “official” art.
Even though I had dreamt of running away from everyone and everything from time to time, my first and only time running away from home was when I was eight years old.
Maria Prymachenko represents both folk naivety and rootedness in the tradition and the liberation from the conventions that women experienced in rural Ukraine.