Artist Profile Lesya Stankevich
Lesya Stankevich, Goal, 2024, Gingerbread dough canvas, royal icing, food colouring, gouache, edible enamel, 15.7″ x 20.9″ (400 mm x 530 mm).
Stankevich’s luminous, confection-sculpted relief charts a fierce determination.
Artist Statement
Have you ever experienced a state of single-mindedness? This is a state of movement, confidence, energy. This state comes to me when I know exactly what I want, and I know exactly why I need it. When I know exactly my goal. When I’m sure something needs to be done, something needs to be created. But there is a path to any goal that must be found.
For me, the state of purposefulness is a sign that you have already felt the way to your goal and stepped on it. And when the first step has already been taken, you want to move further and further.
You are driven by desire and curiosity. You are so focused on your path that no matter how difficult it is, you will continue to move. Because the goal you see on the horizon is meaningful to you and worth your efforts.
Artist Biography
Lesya Stankevich is an Odesa artist, co-founder of the URURUR art gift brand, who creates voluminous paintings from unusual materials: gingerbread dough and sugar glaze.
Lesya started creating her works as a confectioner, but over time, she turned the creation of gingerbread into the creation of full-fledged symbolic paintings. Such an unusual material allows you to create a style that is impossible in any other material, and also emphasizes the fact that today we live in a fragile world—as fragile as Lesya Stankevich’s gingerbread art.