About

Originally from Luhansk, Ukraine, Yulia's scholarship is informed by the collective experiences of war, displacement, and cultural resilience in her homeland. Her research explores how art, memory, and place contribute to identity, self-determination, and processes of decolonization.

Yulia's research lies at the intersection of decolonial and postcolonial studies, Ukrainian visual culture, memory studies, artistic practice as research, and cultural performance. She investigates how visual traditions preserve systems of knowledge despite colonial domination, cultural erasure, and political violence, with particular attention to Ukraine's ongoing process of decolonization.

Her work examines the relationships between ornament, material culture, embodied practice, collective memory, and landscape as repositories of cultural identity and resilience. She is especially interested in comparative colonial histories, particularly the intersections between Ukrainian and Irish experiences, and in how artistic production contributes to self-determination and cultural continuity.

Methodologically, her research combines practice-based inquiry, visual analysis, archival research, ethnography, and interdisciplinary humanities approaches. Through collaborative and community-engaged scholarship, she explores how the visual arts generate new forms of knowledge and contribute to decolonial research, historical interpretation, and cross-cultural dialogue.