TITLE: Where is my home?

This project was created as a series of analog collages where I used printed self-portrait photographies, watercolour paper and threads embroidery.

In the project I explore my own feelings and inner states after losing my home due to the war. This house saw the birth of my children and was my bunker and shelter at all times, but one day it was burned down, destroyed, erased from the geographical map of Eastern Ukraine, leaving a hole deep in my life. I try to be strong all this time. Sometimes I even try to say final “goodbye” and let it go. But in my memory are all those moments that divide my life into “before and after”. In memory are questions which are still impossible to answer, and addresses of my native city, where I left a part of myself once and forever.

Ruined dreams..
Erased memories..
Broken lives..

Where is my home now?

AUTHOR: Irina Cheremisina (Spain)

Irina Cheremisina is a photographer and mixed-media artist currently based in Valencia, Spain. Born in Ukraine, she was obliged to leave her native country when the full-scaled war began in 2022. An economist by Diploma, Irina was always passionate about art, photography and handmade, but she found her professional calling in visual art only after moving to Spain.
Irina works with photography and collage, mixing analog and digital, classic and contemporary.
She is an active participant of international photography exhibitions and festivals in Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Glasgow, Turin, Trieste, Kyiv.
Irina’s artworks were awarded by TIFA 2024 (1 Gold, 2 Bronze), BIFA 2024 (1 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze), Urban Photo Awards 2024 (Selected photographer) as well as Chromatic Photography Awards, LICC 2023, 23d Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 1st Fotonostrum Choice Awards.
In 2024 Irina’s photographs were published in the book “100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers”.