Victoria Strykovska’s work explores chronophobia—the fear of time slipping away—through an expressionist lens, using color to evoke the emotions tied to fleeting moments. Drawing from personal history, she reworks images from her past into fragmented, dreamlike compositions. These echoes of memory serve as both an anchor and a reminder of its instability.

By manipulating color in unexpected ways, she transforms familiar imagery into something more visceral, blurring the line between nostalgia and anxiety.  Saturated hues heighten emotion, while layers of paint, texture, and abstraction depict time as fluid and fragile rather than fixed.

She seeks to freeze time—not in a literal sense, but in the way it lingers within us. Each piece becomes a dialogue between past and present, an attempt to hold onto moments before they dissolve. Through this process, Victoria confronts the ephemeral nature of memory and our desire to grasp what inevitably fades.