Lena Lito
My artistic research stems from duality and the union of opposites, understood as dynamic forces that meet, influence, and transform one another.In my abstract, free, and instinctive painting, I explore this tension through color, gesture, and material.
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I was born and raised in Belarus, in the Polesia region, a land of forests, rivers, and vast natural landscapes. Growing up surrounded by nature fostered in me, from an early age, a deep and spontaneous connection with art.

As a child, I was constantly drawing and painting.

Although art had always been present in my life, my academic and professional path initially developed in a different direction. I earned a degree in Foreign Languages and, at a young age, began working as an English teacher. Teaching languages was my first professional experience and allowed me to explore communication, expression, and human relationships through words.

I later moved to Rome, where I continued my studies and earned a second degree combining Languages and Computer Science.

A decisive turning point came during the pandemic. During those months, as the world was changing before our eyes, many of the certainties on which we had built our lives began to crumble. Values, habits, plans, work, and the sense of security we had taken for granted suddenly became uncertain.

It was a time of profound questions: Who am I really? What remains of me when all certainties disappear? What do I truly want to communicate? Where do I belong?

During that period, I began, layer by layer, to remove everything that no longer felt truly mine: expectations, conditioning, images of myself that I had built over time, and everything I believed I was supposed to be.

It was like going back, beyond everything I had built, to rediscover something that had always been within me.

From that moment on, painting became a form of personal truth. A way of removing what is superfluous, moving through what I feel, and allowing something authentic to emerge.

This awareness gave rise to my current artistic practice: a free, instinctive, and abstract form of painting in which color, gesture, and material become tools for communicating what often cannot be expressed through words.

Main Themes and Artistic Message

My work explores the concept of duality, not as opposition, but as an opportunity to unite opposites.

I am interested in taking two different elements, apparently separate or contradictory, and bringing them toward a point of encounter. For me, duality acquires its true meaning precisely when opposites enter into a relationship, meet, and become part of a single reality.

The conceptual path underlying my practice can be summarized as:

Duality → Union → Energy → Movement → Transformation

Opposites meet; from their union, energy emerges; energy generates movement; and movement leads to transformation.

Duality, therefore, is not a static condition, but a dynamic process in which different forces meet, influence one another, and transform.

This is why I often choose the diptych as a format: two distinct panels that, together, become a single work. The separation between the two parts does not represent a definitive distance, but rather a space for dialogue and connection, where energy can flow and generate movement.

Abstraction is the language that allows me to express this exploration. I feel that it is not enough to paint only what I see. Abstraction gives me greater freedom and lightness; it allows me to move beyond recognizable forms and paint what cannot be seen.

 


 
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