Alexandra Liakhavets is a Belarusian painter working primarily with gouache. Her practice is rooted in immediacy: each work is created in a single flow, often completed in one sitting, capturing a specific moment of perception. Embracing the medium’s fast, fragile, and unpredictable nature, she explores impermanence, identity, and mental states. With a background in fashion and textile design, A Liakhavets approaches the figures through distortion, using clothing, color, and pattern as carriers of cultural and personal meaning. Moving between observation and imagination, her paintings reveal the quiet theatricality and emotional complexity of everyday life.
My works reflect everyday life experiences that are touching, annoying, or personally disturbing. I use gouache as my primary medium to explore overlooked aspects of mundane activities hidden behind laptop and phone screens. My interests include mental health, social relations, power dynamics, and femininity, expressed through objects, phrases, and characters. I exclusively use a non-digital approach, as art practice for me becomes a way of being present, without relying on other mediums. Having fashion design background in Belarus shapes my vision, influencing how I distort human figures and emphasize clothing, color, and pattern as tools of expression.