Olga Axenova

The works in this series explore the artist’s personal myth of the Uranidi tribe.

The tribe is a composite figure, drawing from personal and collective experience, as well as from a self-generated mythology rooted in the pain of growing up, the search for belonging, and solitude.

The project intertwines the traditions of icon painting with the contemporary paradigm of the digital world. Its characters—guests, wanderers, and accidental companions—travel across a fragile landscape of memory, shaping the project’s visual identity.

This speculative project imagines the tribe as an attempt to connect different timeframes of collective memory, examining points of convergence, rupture, and the voids that link disparate parts of the work. The project employs a unique language and system of symbols, manifesting in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and text.