Born in Ukraine and based in London, Iryna Kurylets is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, text, music, and artificial intelligence. Her practice explores war, power, surveillance, and collective memory through surreal and concept-driven forms that blur the boundaries between reality and construction.

Grounded in long-term research into contemporary conflict and its psychological afterlives, Kurylets’ photographic work spans surrealistic image-making, conceptual portraits, and constructed scenes, combining staged elements, symbolic gestures, and found situations to question how violence is mediated, aestheticised, and normalised. Motifs such as drones, games, crowds, and anonymous figures recur throughout her work, standing in for systems of control, distance, and spectatorship.

Alongside photography, Kurylets writes songs and poems that function as parallel investigations into language, loss, and intimacy under pressure. More recently, her practice has expanded into artificial intelligence as both a tool and a subject, interrogating authorship, automation, and the ethics of image-making in an era of synthetic realities.