Iryna works from the fissure.

Born in a territory shaped by historical and political tensions, her biography is marked by transit, displacement, and the need to reconstruct herself in other places, languages, and images. She has lived and worked between Eastern Europe, Turkey, Colombia, and Spain, forming a mobile identity in constant transformation.

This migrant condition does not appear in her work as an explicit narrative, but rather as a latent instability.
Her artistic practice, situated between painting, collage, and the use of recycled materials, is articulated through fragmentation. She works with remnants: papers, images, and surfaces that have already had a previous life. Each work is an assemblage of what remains, of what persists after wear and erosion.

The female body occupies the center of her imagination, not as a closed representation, but as a contested territory. Her figures, inspired by contemporary visual culture, fashion, and media imagery, appear eroded, incomplete, in the process of disappearing.

In her work, there is a constant tension between the visible and the hidden, between the projected image and an identity that never fully fits within it.

Rather than representing women, Iryna Gragera paints the trace of having been looked at. And in that trace — imperfect, unstable, and open — the possibility of resistance also appears.

Belleda López. Artist and cultural manager