Artistic Practice
In her artistic practice, Galya Biryukova brings together sculptural form and photographic expression. Her interest lies in how material, construction, and image exist on the body and within space, creating a new way of seeing the human presence.
Artistic projects
18:08 is a fashion project by artist and designer Galya Biryukova, bringing together an original collection, a fashion film, and photography.
The project was inspired by the films of Federico Fellini and by the particular state they left the artist in — one in which the present, memory, and imagination coexist.
In 18:08, the conventional division between masculine and feminine dissolves. The image remains central, whether embodied by a man or a woman. The artist works with silhouette and emotional presence, allowing clothing to exist beyond conventional gender boundaries.
The central image of both the collection and the film is that of hands embracing a face. For the artist, this gesture is connected to the memory of touch and maternal presence, an inner connection to the past and her lineage, and a sense of support and blessing.
The project was created in Milan, while the fashion film was shot in Rome in July 2026. For a collection shaped by the influence of Fellini’s cinema, Rome became the natural setting for the story and defined its atmosphere. The original music by Fabio Gianni brought the artistic world of the film together.
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Dom Mod - is an artistic series in which the form of clothing is examined as an autonomous object existing in different modes of presence.
The project consists of four objects: one body-related form and three spatial forms, united by a single constructive logic. In each state, the fabric interacts differently with the body and space - restricting it, detaching from it, or shifting into another scale. The series explores the transition of form from utilitarian function to independent artistic existence.
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Not Mine is an artistic photography project exploring the distance between image and belonging. The author is present not as a character, but as a sensing observer - both witness and reflection at once. Photography becomes a space of observation: between author and subject, between gaze and reflection, between “mine” and “not mine.” This work speaks of participation without appropriation - of being inside the process while remaining outside the image.
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What in Life, What in a Dream - is an artistic photographic project exploring the fragile boundary between reality and dreaming.
The images are deprived of a stable focus and fixed point of reference: movement, light, and blur become the primary carriers of meaning.
Photography here does not capture an event, but a state - a moment in which memory, perception, and presence merge, making it impossible to determine where the dream ends and life begins.
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