Julia Kiryanova’s practice is grounded in painting and tapestry, exploring scale, repetition, and spatial form. Her large-scale works function as autonomous objects, while at times inviting performative activation. Investigating excess and multiplicity, her practice situates the viewer within the structure, color, and physical experience of the material.

With a strong focus on narrative, mythology, and material storytelling, Kiryanova draws on ancient myths, folklore, and mystical traditions, weaving them together with contemporary experiences and personal histories to construct new narrative worlds.

She treats myth not as a fixed story from the past, but as a living structure that is continuously rewritten. Through painting, felting, and tufting, she develops layered surfaces where figures, symbols, and abstract forms coexist, allowing stories to unfold through material, color, and texture rather than linear narration. These works function as visual spaces in which personal and collective memories intersect, inviting viewers to project their own interpretations.