Featured series
Selected series of paintings
Paper Corporeality
Paper Corporeality is a series of works created in the technique of handmade cast paper, in which the female body emerges as a space of memory, vulnerability, and inner strength. The texture of the paper becomes an integral part of the image: its uneven, porous, living surface evokes skin, the trace of time, bodily experience, and the fragility of matter. The line appears as a primal sign — an imprint of presence, a form arising between material and memory. In this series, female figures move toward an archaic image: simple, powerful, and almost emblematic. The body is approached as a natural form — as organic as earth, stone, tree bark, or handmade paper itself. Paper Corporeality continues my exploration of paper as an autonomous artistic language. In these works, paper is not merely a support for the image; it becomes the body of the work itself — a carrier of trace, memory, and living presence.
Presence Without a Name
The series Presence Without a Name is the point of origin of my artistic practice — a body of paintings in which the themes that later moved into my work with handmade cast paper, corporeality, texture, and archaic signs first took shape. These works were created as an exploration of female presence through state, inner tension, and emotional atmosphere. The female image here is stripped of a specific name, biography, or detailed individuality. It exists as an inner phenomenon — silence, fatigue, tenderness, detachment, anticipation, radiance, or a hidden force that transforms the space around it even before it is consciously perceived. It is in this series that one of my key artistic principles first appears: the image emerges through the material. The face dissolves into layers of colour, the contour loses its stability, the body shifts into texture, and presence becomes stronger than form. This experience later became the foundation for my work with paper as an autonomous body of the artwork — porous, fragile, material, and a carrier of memory. Presence Without a Name holds the place of a starting point within my portfolio, from which my later artistic language has grown. These paintings already contain the questions I continue to explore today: how an inner state changes reality, how the hidden becomes visible through matter, how the female image shifts from portrait into sign, and how the personal moves into the archetypal.
Return to the Sources
Return to the Sources is a series of works that turns to the primal impulse of creation — the force that has moved and continues to move humanity, from prehistoric humans to the present day. The series engages with images of archaic culture and primary symbols of nature, approaching art as a form of memory, trace, and inner connection with the source. Created in the artist’s original technique of handmade cast paper, the works combine the materiality of the surface, a restrained palette, and the plasticity of form, referring to the visual language of prehistoric art. The animal images appear not only as natural forms, but also as carriers of vital energy, cyclicality, and the deep unity between human beings and the natural world.
Paintings
Selected works
About the artist
Matter, memory and the body in handmade cast paper
Natali Medvedieva is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Lviv. Her practice explores handmade cast paper as a tactile, sculptural and expressive material, where surface, body and memory become part of the same visual language.
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Featured event
Touches
Touches is a group exhibition at Strilciv 5 Contemporary Art Gallery in Lviv. The project explores a space where vulnerable presence becomes visible and safe.
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