POP ART MATE Solo Project by Darina Mykytyuk Kyiv, 2015

POP ART MATE is a vibrant visual manifesto of femininity, irony, and emotional presence. In this debut solo exhibition, Darina Mykytyuk reimagines pop art as a space where glamour meets vulnerability, and where the language of color and surface becomes a vessel for deeper truths.

Through bold palettes, expressive forms, and sharply ironic titles, the artist explores desires articulated in the urgency of the present moment. Each work is a performative confession — part diary, part provocation — that celebrates the complexity of the female experience.

In POP ART MATE, Mykytyuk positions the female gaze as both playful and disruptive, reclaiming symbols of contemporary beauty and reframing them as sites of personal power. It is an aesthetic charged with emotion — a pop art that feels, dares, and exposes.

The project has become a foundational layer of the artist’s visual language and continues to shape her ongoing practice: a vivid, concept-driven style that blends cultural commentary with raw emotional honesty.