Iusty Art Gallery is pleased to announce Genesis, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian artist Liliya Timakova. In Genesis, Liliya Timakova invites viewers into an abstract, energetic landscape where painting becomes an act of creation in its purest form. Her compositions unfold like a primordial event—an origin point where matter, energy, and sensation first take shape. Much like the birth of the universe from a cloud of particles, her brushstrokes evoke an elemental process of emergence, a visual echo of something perpetually beginning.

Her use of color and gesture recalls the behavior of atomic particles—infinitesimal units constantly in motion, forming the building blocks of all that exists. These marks don’t represent objects; they generate presence. They float, collide, disperse, and cluster across the surface of the canvas, as if responding to invisible forces. Each brushstroke becomes a unit of matter in flux—charged with energy, unpredictable, yet organically organized.
Through this lens, Liliya Timakova’s abstract works resemble molecular fields, where color operates like a force and form is always in the process of becoming. Reality, here, is not fixed or represented—it is felt as vibration, rhythm, resonance. Her canvases are not scenes, but systems: energetic structures in which the viewer is invited to perceive with their entire body, not just their eyes.

The title Genesis anchors this approach. It speaks not of a single moment of origin, but of ongoing creation—art as a continuous act of genesis. Liliya’s paintings echo this timeless dynamic: they are not depictions of a world already formed, but glimpses into the formative forces that precede language, image, and identity. In this sense, Genesis is not just the title of the exhibition—it is the condition of the work itself.

By leaving her paintings untitled, Liliya Timakova encourages an open perceptual space where viewers can engage freely, without the constraints of narrative or definition. This aligns with the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who proposed that perception is not a passive act, but an active, embodied experience. Her paintings, like primordial fields, ask to be sensed rather than interpreted. They invite a return to a more instinctive mode of seeing—what Merleau-Ponty called primordial perception.

Liliya Timakova’s Genesis is thus a meditation on beginnings—not just cosmological, but emotional and perceptual. It is an invitation to witness the forming of matter and meaning in real time. Through vibrant gestures and elemental dynamics, she paints not what the world looks like, but how it feels before we give it a name.