Dymchuk Gallery presents Natalia Lisova’s project Silent Portrait, featuring paintings created between 2022 and 2026. The exhibition brings together figurative compositions and landscapes, establishing a shared visual framework.
Following the exhibition Indifferent Space (2023), the artist shifts her focus from landscape to the human figure. In Silent Portrait, the figure becomes the central motif. It is neither a portrait in the classical sense nor the image of a specific individual. The body is reduced to minimal physical markers — a silhouette or fragment. What remains is the intensity of presence and silence.
The landscape, presented alongside the figurative works, gradually assumes bodily qualities. The deserted expanse grows more dramatic, raising the question of what remains when human presence is absent.
An achromatic approach remains fundamental to Lisova’s practice. The restriction of color directs attention to tone, light, and the weight of form. The restrained palette underscores gesture and the materiality of painting, turning black and white into a space of concentration and stillness.
Lisova’s visual language has developed through long-term engagement with landscape, performance, and site-specific projects. In preparation for the exhibition, she spent two weeks working on a large-scale canvas in the gallery. The body fragments depicted there resonate with landscape elements in the exhibition — human legs and tree trunks emotionally dominate, manifesting support.
Silent Portrait marks a stage in which landscape and figure operate within a unified structure. In this configuration, the body is perceived as a landscape, and the landscape as a body.
Natalia Lisova
Born in Lityn (Vinnytsia region, Ukraine).
She graduated from the Vinnytsia branch of Kyiv National University of Culture and arts (Environmental Design, 2011) and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Art Theory and History, 2019). In 2025, she defended her dissertation, Vernacular Language of Ukrainian land art (NAOFA, Kyiv).
She was a recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (2018, curator Janusz Bałdyga, Poznań).
She has served as curator and co-curator of land art and spatial art projects, including Internally Displaced Landscape (National Center Ukrainskyi Dim, Kyiv, 2023); There was a story (Korydor Gallery, Uzhhorod, 2023); the educational project Land Art School (Kyiv, 2024–2025); and the land art symposium Prostir Pokordonnya (Mohrytsia, 2021), among others.
She has participated in international exhibitions, performance festivals, and residencies in Ukraine and abroad, including Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Turkey, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
Lives and works in Kyiv.