T.2 Gallery

Vera Blansh’s exhibition Valkyrie is a visual tribute to the strength that often remains unseen — the strength of women who carry both life and resistance. 
This exhibition presents a new stage in the artist’s practice, developed after her return to Ukraine from Japan. Through ceramics and graphics works, Vera turns to ancestral forms and motifs, drawing from Ukrainian ethnography and medieval traditions. These symbols are not decorative — they are part of a deeper cultural memory that has become a form of armor.
The ceramic works are raw, tactile, and heavy with symbolism. They suggest not only tools of conflict, but also objects of preservation. The graphics reflect figures of women shaped by myth and real history — neither idealized nor victimized, but resolute.
Valkyrie is a project about transformation: from fragility to force, from silence to presence. It speaks about war not through direct representation, but through the language of form, material, and gesture. And this language is female.
Vera Blansh is a Ukrainian photographer and interdisciplinary artist. Starting in fashion photography, she later became a photojournalist documenting the full-scale war in Ukraine. Her artistic practice expanded in Japan, where she began working with ceramics and traditional ink painting.
Blansh’s work explores themes of resilience, feminine strength, and cultural continuity through a visual language that merges Ukrainian ethnography, symbolism, and contemporary form.