SOLITUDE AND DREAMS
OLGA KRYKUN
Solitude and Dreams unfolds like a fever dream, seven paintings that hover between vision and hallucination, their surfaces charged with contradictions. Olga Krykun crafts a visual language that feels otherworldly: a mythology stitched together from folklore and internet fragments, cultural memory and personal longing. Each canvas opens onto a threshold. Solitude isn’t empty here…it’s alive with whispers. Dreams drift into waking life, not as escapes but as prompts, suggesting other ways to see. Symbols flicker between recognition and enigma. Krykun’s paintings act as portals: radiating a rebellious refusal to conform. The artist gives shape to an interior world whereby her characters dance across the pictorial plane.
E-girl melancholia 15, 2021, Acrylic, dye on canvas, 65 x 50 cm
€1350
“Art is so powerful. It can carry messages, shape conversations, and offer counterpoints when other voices carry opposite, harmful messages. I wanted my voice to be present, maybe even louder.”
2nd year/ Forget-me-nots 01, 2023, Acrylic, dye, pastel on canvas, 45 x 40 cm
€ 1200
In this body of work, solitude is not an absence but a generative force; dreams are not escapes but guides into hidden realms. The fever-dream atmosphere lingers, asking us to sit with our own ambiguities; our longing, our transformations, our desire to belong in both the physical and digital mythologies of contemporary life.
SUMMER FORGET-ME-NOTS / ЛІТНІНЕЗАБУДКИ 04, 2022, Acrylic, dye, pastel on canvas, 45 x 40 cm
€1200
“The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine, and gradually the women in my paintings transformed into flowers. They became these girl-flower figures. It wasn’t something I planned, it just happened. This new character carried the melancholy of existential struggles.”
Yassified, 2023, Acrylic, dye, pastel on canvas, 90 x 100 cm
€1950
“My parents ran a souvenir shop, full of little figures; dogs, angels, flowers, characters. Everywhere. That imagery became part of my bones. I loved the dog figurines especially, and I still think about them when painting.”
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors VII, 2023, Dye, ink, pastel on the canvas, 95 x 75 cm
€1755
Krykun speaks of art as both symbol and tool, a way of shaping conversations and offering counterpoints when destructive voices dominate. Through her flower-figures, she translates vulnerability into persistence, melancholy into renewal. The result is work that insists on beauty not as ornament, but as a form of resilience, a way of holding hope without denying the weight of crisis.
E-girl melancholia 19, 2021, Acrylic, dye on canvas, 110 x 130 cm
€2500
“After the invasion of Ukraine happened I started questioning everything in my life, and in my work. I asked myself, should I even be an artist? But that questioning gave me a strong sense of why I must be an artist.”
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors V, 2023, Acrylic, dye, wax, pastel on canvas, 90 x 100 cm
€1950
For Krykun, flowers are more than decoration; they’ve become characters that hold the weight of history and the fragility of life. ‘Flowers are vulnerable, yes, but they persist, they bloom briefly, they give new life,’ she explains. What began as portraits of young women shifted after the invasion of Ukraine into flower-figures that embody both melancholy and resilience.
In her words, the paintings are ‘mirrors’, surfacing what can’t always be spoken, offering beauty not as escape but as clarity of the soul.
“I realized how much power art can have both symbolically and practically, and that kept me going, even though it’s a difficult field.”
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