This piece will be on view at the “EROS & ASHES” duo show from 15th of May in Florence, Italy. - Curated by @why_nat_projects - Location @spaziosassetti - With @ariaartgallery
“When gratitude fuses with grief it breaks the fabric of memory. Gradually processed through sadness it becomes transparent, pierced with new possibilities, expanding through transformation.”
@palinaadriana@yulia__bas
⚫️ I don’t think this question “how do feelings get transformed into an art piece” could be fully answered.
If it could, we wouldn’t be making art at all.
There are several new works that will be presented at an exhibition “EROS & ASHES” curated by @why_nat_projects
in Florence, at the @spaziosassetti with @ariaartgallery .
The opening - May 15th
➖ The closer I pressed charcoal to canvas, the more a figure unraveled into fragments. ➖ No matter how intimately I try to see myself, another corridor opens, patterns repeat like echoes, one version leading into the next.
➖ Quantum physics calls it fractal, ➖ the psyche simply calls it “Aaaaaaaa! Give me a break!”
➖ I thought I’m building a map, but somehow I’m just discovering more rooms inside the maze.Enchanted rooms, occasionally profound rooms, but still. Very much maze.
➖ Maybe wholeness was never a final goal..
⚫️ New works on view soon
Curated by amazing @why_nat_projects
Shown at @spaziosassetti Florence, Italy together with @ariaartgallery from 15th of May ⚫️
Personal Structures 2026 — Selected Artist
Yulia Bas @yulia__bas
Yulia Bas is an artist whose practice unfolds across painting, drawing, and mixed media installation, grounded in an exploration of perception, memory, and the body as a site of transformation.
Her work engages with the body not as a fixed form, but as a shifting field where personal and collective experiences intersect — where instability, vulnerability, and connection coexist. Drawing from autobiographical material, she approaches artistic process as a way of thinking through rupture, healing, and re-composition.
Through fragmentation, repetition, and processes of untangling, her practice constructs spaces where what resists articulation can emerge. Rather than positioning these elements as confession, her work reconfigures them — allowing tension and complexity to expand into new forms of coherence.
Her visual language moves between control and release, tracing the threshold where structure begins to dissolve, and where uncertainty opens into possibility. Within this, the work holds a quiet insistence: that fragility is not a limit, but a condition through which transformation becomes visible.
As part of Personal Structures 2026
(May 9 — November 22, Venice)
her work unfolds within the framework of Accepted Without Review — where process becomes visible, continuous, and unmediated.
More soon.
📸 @palinaadriana
⚫️ During the storm of restructuring my life, I laid aside every brush and reached for the surface with skin and bone.
My hands became my first tools. The stacks of automatic drawings, each page smudged and overworked, were not planned compositions but physical attempts to return to myself.
I learned that the ritual of working directly on the canvas, fingers pressed into carbon black, grounds memory and emotion far deeper than any perfect line or technique ever did.
The tempo is slow, repetitive. Smudge, breathe, pause, begin again. The studio itself shapes how I think—tactile, restless.
This space holds the tactile evidence of searching for identity inside the raw process. If healing has a signature, for me it is the directness of the hand in charcoal.
⚫️ The moment I put down the brush and let pure anger become my medium, everything changed. Hands in direct contact—frustration, failure, and finally, a strange sense of rebuilding.
For me, art only became honest once I stopped trying to control the outcome and let the process pull me apart.
Have you ever had a breakthrough only after letting something break?
Share your moment below.
I want to hear how destruction led you to your own creative shift.
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@sheidlina Thank you 🩵 for invitation!
➕ Our Residency experiment n.1 BANGKOK 2026
@agni.asia thank you so much for facilitating space, materials and assistance!
Artists:
@paliblu@yeokaa@delvalius@daniel_martin_art
I love u! 🩵 Spending these few crazy creative spicy sweaty days together was unforgettable!
Little artifacts of a period of so many changes. Lacy and delicate… 💨 That was the sensation.
Little works in my studio.
#littlepaitnings #painting #oilpainting #charcoaloncanvas #artist
