Artist Profile Lesya Stankevich
Lesya Stankevich, Minefield, 2023, Gingerbread dough
canvas, royal icing, food colourings, edible enamel.
Artist Statement
In the summer of 2023, my fellow volunteers from Lviv asked me to go to Kherson to take a small parcel to the military. Summer heat and relaxation, the steppe and blooming fields outside the car window…roadblocks and buildings destroyed by the rocket hittings are already an everyday part of the landscape. And little red signs “Caution, mines!” on the roadsides, which reminds of what happened here quite recently. And about the fact that even if you live in the rear and the flowers around you continue to bloom—the war is still an arm’s length away.
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.