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1981
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Yana Dmitrieva is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between figuration, abstraction, and surrealism to examine uncertainty, adaptation, and the preservation of self. Her paintings focus on moments when familiar structures begin to dissolve and identity becomes something fluid rather than fixed.
Figures in Dmitrieva's work are frequently faceless. By withholding individual expression, she shifts attention toward the body itself — its posture, tension, balance, hesitation, and instinctive response to circumstances beyond its control. Human forms stretch, merge with fish and other organisms, or inhabit spaces that seem simultaneously above and below water.
Migration forms an important conceptual undercurrent in her practice, but the work deliberately avoids literal autobiography. Displacement becomes a broader psychological condition that can arise through relocation, loss, motherhood, separation, reinvention, or any experience in which a familiar version of the self no longer feels sufficient.
Her distinctive palette of aquatic blues, luminous greens, violets, and unexpected chromatic transitions intensifies this sense of instability. Landscape becomes less a physical location than an extension of consciousness.
Dmitrieva's ongoing Displaced Bodies series considers the body as an archive of uncertainty. Rather than illustrating what has happened to a person, the paintings preserve the physical state of being caught between what was and what comes next — a vulnerable, unresolved territory in which transformation has begun but identity has not yet settled.
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Painting . 112 x 81 x 0.1 cm Painting . 44.1 x 31.9 x 0 inch
CHF 1,223
Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,922
Fine Art Drawings . 35.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14 x 11 x 0 inch
CHF 393
Painting . 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,048
Fine Art Drawings . 40.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 15.9 x 11 x 0 inch
CHF 612
Fine Art Drawings . 35.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14 x 11 x 0 inch
CHF 393
Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,922
Painting . 90 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 874
Painting . 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,747
Fine Art Drawings . 35.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14 x 11 x 0 inch
CHF 393
Painting . 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting . 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 699
Painting . 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting . 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 437
Painting . 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 419
Painting . 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 419
Painting . 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
CHF 419 CHF 377
Fine Art Drawings . 67 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 26.4 x 18.5 x 0 inch
CHF 568
Fine Art Drawings . 68 x 47.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 26.8 x 18.7 x 0 inch
CHF 568
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 306
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 306
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 306
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 349
Fine Art Drawings . 28.5 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
CHF 349
Fine Art Drawings . 25 x 18 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 9.8 x 7.1 x 0 inch
CHF 262
Fine Art Drawings . 25 x 18 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 9.8 x 7.1 x 0 inch
CHF 262
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 19 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 7.5 x 0 inch
CHF 262 CHF 236
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
CHF 262
Fine Art Drawings . 28.5 x 19.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.2 x 7.7 x 0 inch
CHF 262 CHF 236
Fine Art Drawings . 27.5 x 20 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 10.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
CHF 349
Fine Art Drawings . 44 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 17.3 x 12 x 0 inch
CHF 349
Fine Art Drawings . 63 x 46 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 24.8 x 18.1 x 0 inch
CHF 393
Fine Art Drawings . 27.5 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 10.8 x 13 x 0 inch
CHF 306 CHF 275
Painting . 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting . 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,922
Painting . 96.5 x 81.5 x 2 cm Painting . 38 x 32.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 3,058
Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,922
Painting . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,485
Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,922
Painting . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,922
Painting . 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting . 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,660
Fine Art Drawings . 36 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch
CHF 612
Fine Art Drawings . 48 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 18.9 x 14.2 x 0 inch
CHF 612
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 15 x 0 inch
CHF 306
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 19 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 7.5 x 0 inch
CHF 262 CHF 236
Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 20 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
CHF 262
Fine Art Drawings . 27 x 20 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 10.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
CHF 262 CHF 236
Fine Art Drawings . 63.5 x 44 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 25 x 17.3 x 0 inch
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Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Painting . 60 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
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Painting . 70 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 27.5 x 18.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings . 10.8 x 7.3 x 0 inch
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