Leonora Yakymashchenko graduated from the National Academy of Arts and Architecture, already directing her work towards symbolism.
The symbolist principle of the coexistence of two worlds marked the first period of the artist's search.
A painter by training, inspired by Greek antiquity, in her work she sought answers to eternal
questions that were paradoxically thrown up by everyday life itself.
The appeal to the myth formed the artist's neomythological consciousness, inherent in the artists of the 20th century.
century, where reality is not something self-sufficient, it constantly refers the viewer to
to myth and symbol.
For Leonora Yakymashchenko, myth is a spatial and temporal model of a perpetual motion machine, a matrix of fate.
Myth organizes the chaos of reality and gives it an inner meaning.