Artist statement
Tamara Kostochko’s artistic practice explores the relationship between the body, perception, and action. She is interested in how an internal impulse becomes material form, and how human beings shape their reality through gesture and movement.
Hands frequently occupy a central role in her work — not merely as depicted elements, but as structural devices within the composition. They function as mediators between inner state and external environment, directing attention and establishing a vector of perception. Through this recurring motif, Kostochko examines questions of agency, focus, and responsibility in relation to one’s own direction.
Her practice is grounded in close observation of how the body participates in processes of thinking and decision-making. Working with colour, scale, and spatial tension, she constructs visual situations that invite viewers to consider their own position within a wider field of relations.
For Kostochko, painting is a way of capturing transitional states — the moment between impulse and articulation, intention and realisation. In her work, the body is not set apart from the world but understood as embedded within broader natural, social, and perceptual systems.
