Past Residents Eva Alvor
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Eva Alvor. Work process. Poland, Lublin 2024. Photo credit Magda Boruch.
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Eva Alvor. Octopus 2024
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Eva Alvor. Mollusk 2024
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Eva Alvor. Flower 2024
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Eva Alvor. Installation between dream and nightmare 2025 gallery MABD, Finland.
Eva Alvor (Olena Myrnychenko) is an artist who lives and works in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. She produces acrylic paintings, graphic works in charcoal, textile pieces, embroidery, theatre costumes and site-specific installations. In 2006 she graduated with distinction from the faculty of design at Khmelnytskyi National University. Eva has participated in numerous exhibitions and artists’ residencies, both in Ukraine and abroad. Her work can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, the US, Slovenia, Czechia and Finland.
During my residency I will be working on a large embroidered canvas “Dream Map”. In my artistic practice I combine acrylic painting and handmade embroidery as a meditative process on the canvas. I explore images of childhood memories, and visions created by my subconscious mind in my dreams.
I create highly detailed and tactile artworks using materials such as textiles, pieces of fabric from old clothes, sometimes parts of plastic bags, and hand embroidery. In these, the embroidered lines are reminiscent of graphics, and pieces of fabric of different textures create the effect of painting.