Ellaya Yefymova (b. 1990, Ukraine) is a physician-turned-artist based in Lisbon, whose work explores the themes of mortality, resilience, and the conscious experience of life. After fleeing the war in Ukraine in 2022 and overcoming clinical depression, she began developing her...
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Ellaya Yefymova (b. 1990, Ukraine) is a physician-turned-artist based in Lisbon, whose work explores the themes of mortality, resilience, and the conscious experience of life. After fleeing the war in Ukraine in 2022 and overcoming clinical depression, she began developing her ongoing series Memento Vivere — a contemporary reinterpretation of the Memento Mori tradition, aimed not at glorifying, romanticising or trivialising death, but at inspiring purposeful, conscious living. Ellaya’s art is deeply influenced by vanitas and existentialism.
Her work has been exhibited internationally.
