Project

Metamorphosis

Nationality

Russian Ukranian

Maria is an artist whose work navigates the complexities of identity, heritage and emotional truth. In Metamorphosis, traditional Russian embroidery becomes a language for personal reflection, asking what it means to carry cultural identity in a time of alienation, mistrust and silence.

Through detailed patterns and symbolic stitching, the project offers an intimate perspective rooted in individual experience rather than global politics. It seeks not to explain or justify, but to hold space for nuance, compassion and the quiet courage of being.

Metamorphosis invites viewers to reconsider assumptions, to see tradition as a living process and to find peace within cultural memory. It is a call to connect across borders through care and understanding.