Artist · Actress · Storyteller

Maryia
Zaloznaya

Born in Belarus and shaped by a life lived across the world, Maryia Zaloznaya is an artist and actress whose practice begins where language ends. From Minsk to Sochi, Warsaw, Barcelona, Tenerife and Los Angeles, she gathered not only images, but ways of seeing --- fragments of cultures, human encounters, ruptures and rebirths.

Her work is an act of transformation. Pain is never presented as spectacle; it is carried through colour, texture and symbol until it becomes beauty, power and recognition. Each painting asks what might happen if we stopped hiding the parts of ourselves that survived.

Her practice moves beyond canvas. Maryia paints on vinyl records, turning objects once made to hold sound into singular visual stories where memory, music and matter meet. She also restores antiques, approaching every historic object with patience and reverence. Restoration is another form of listening: preserving the marks of time while allowing beauty to breathe again.

Her artistic language can be described as psychological symbolic expressionism, enriched by surrealism, contemporary figurative art and tactile abstraction. Dreamlike figures, fractured identities, chess symbolism, gold, layered surfaces and sculptural relief turn inner states into visual mythology. The images feel intimate yet archetypal - suspended between confession and dream, wound and ritual, darkness and illumination.

Alongside her visual practice, Maryia has built an international career as an actress and screen performer. Her credits include work connected with Netflix's Wednesday, an appearance in a music video for Muse, and roles across music videos, commercials and independent screen projects. Moving between performance and painting allows her to understand emotion from both sides: as something inhabited by the body and something given permanent form.

Acting taught her to inhabit emotion. Painting taught her to give it a body. Together, these disciplines form a deeply personal visual language - psychological and unafraid - in which vulnerability becomes strength and private experience becomes something universal.

I do not paint pain to preserve it. I transform it, so it can become freedom.