Not wanting to offend this woman who I otherwise really liked, I simply said, “We’re not all like that.” She looked disappointed. She loved it, she said, when Black women put their hands on their hips and swiveled their necks in protest. To her, these stereotypical portrayals made Black folks seem understandable, even though to me, her descriptions felt like we were exotic others. My Malaysian roommate, who had seen many episodes of the old nineties sitcom Family Matters, told me that she loved Black women because we were sassy like Harriette and Laura Winslow, the main Black female characters on that show. Years after that, I was doing a summer abroad in South Korea. When I looked at her with question marks in my eyes, she said, “You know, they mean the way I talk to them and roll my neck,” and demonstrated it for me. In my first terrible job after college, my boss, an older white woman, told me that the students at the predominantly Black school at which we worked had deemed her an honorary Black woman.
You know, those caricatures of finger-waving, eye-rolling Black women at whom everyone loves to laugh-women like Tyler Perry’s Madea, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, or Nell from that old eighties sitcom Gimme a Break! These kinds of Black women put white folks at ease. When it comes to Black women, sometimes Americans don’t recognize that sass is simply a more palatable form of rage. And that’s the place where more women should begin-with the things that make us angry. To be clear, I’m not really into self-help books, so I don’t have one of those catchy three-step plans for changing the world. These women want to change things but don’t know where to begin. This is a book for women who know shit is fucked up. This is a book for women who expect to be taken seriously and for men who take grown women seriously. Kavaleridze, Kyiv 2017 - international exhibition-contest of contemporary art "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK", House of Architects, Kiev 2016 – “ART-REVIVISCENCE”, Ukrainian House, Kyiv.This is a book by a grown-ass woman written for other grown-ass women. 2018 - personal art exhibition "Birds" held at the law firm "GORO Legal", Kyiv 2018 - international exhibition-contest of contemporary art "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK", the House of Artists, Kyiv 2018 - international exhibition of contemporary art "Palazzo Priuli Bon - Venice", Venice, Italy 2017 - "TALENT ENERGY FEST", All-Ukrainian Christmas Contest for Artists, Museum-workshop of I. 2018 - "L'assemblea Internazionale Plein Air Settimana Della Arti", Eurasian Art Union, Rome, Italy. 2018 - personal art exhibition "The World of Birds’ Mysteries", the Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv. 2018 -2019 - personal art exhibition "The World of Birds’ Mysteries", the Designer concept store Atelier 1,Kyiv. 2019- personal art exhibition "The World of Birds’ Mysteries", the National Arch-Architectural and Historical Reserve "Old Chernigiv ". Selected Exhibitions: 2019 - personal art exhibition “COLORATURA”, National museum of Taras Shevchenko.
Yeshchenko-Petrova’s works are kept in National museum of Taras Shevchenko, private collections of Ukraine, Italy, Russia and France. 2017 - TALENT ENERGY FEST (Ukraine ) 2018 - UKRAINIAN ART WEEK (Ukraine ), 2018 - "Palazzo Priuli Bon - Venice" (Italy), 2018 з L'assemblea Internazionale Plein Air Settimana Della Arti, Eurasian Art Union (Іtally). She is an award winner and prizetaker of Ukrainian and international art exhibitions, contests of paintings and graphic arts and a participant of Ukrainian art exhibitions in Italy. 2013 she began to study painting in the creative workshops of such artists as Oksana Svyzhak, Lyubov Senchuk. Nataliya Yeshchenko-Petrova is a contemporary Ukrainian artist. “I want to imagine, to feel not only the sounds of a bird but also the sounds of its colour.” Each bird sounds differently, as does its colour, plumage, environment. Synonyms for coloratura are a trill, a song. They are the only ones that we can describe by saying that "they sing." Fascination by nightingale trill has formed the basis of many musical and literary masterpieces, and in my turn, I seek for music in color. After all, a bird is the only living creature that we in the course of nature associate with music. In my project, I reflect on the sound of color, imbuing the painting with music, searching for symbols of sound vibration in the birds’ images. Fine art and music are one of the most ancient kinds of art they are the cornerstone, the beauty that a human was able to notice and borrow from the nature.
"Music cannot be regarded other than as the sister of painting"(Leonardo da Vinci). Birds’ images dominate in the artist's work, running like a golden thread from one canvas to another. This work is from my personal art exhibition “COLORATURA” Concept of "COLORATURA" Exhibition Personal exhibition "COLORATURA", watercolors, artist Natalia Yeshchenko-Petrova Natalia has been working at the project over a year.