Nazar
Strelyaev Nazarko

Born in 1998 in Kharkiv, Nazar grew up in an ambivalent political context echoing the USSR's illusory narratives and representations. Since middle school, Nazar has started translating his life experience by continuously drawing. A fate-infused encounter with an art professor close to his family and the subsequent drawing and painting classes, portraying sessions of plaster heads, and long conversations sparked a deeply rooted devotion to painting and its history. Following his graduation in Industrial Design in his hometown, Nazar's dedication brought him to study in Italy, magnetized by the country's artistic heritage and the possibility of tangibly diving into Italian Renaissance and Baroque. Nazar's spirit of observation, his penchant for fantasy and the transnational academic experience activated a pictorial language in which classical references intertwine with atemporal symbols to become collective déjà-vus.