Katerina Gordeeva is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Cancún, Mexico.

For more than two decades, she worked as an illustrator and concept artist, creating images for games and other visual projects. Over time, she became increasingly interested in a different kind of image-making - one that did not begin with a story, character, or predetermined idea.

Her move into abstract painting grew alongside a more personal shift in her life. Living away from her country of origin and moving between languages has made her increasingly aware of how much can be communicated without words. Painting became a way to explore that space: how an inner state can become visible, felt, and shared without needing to be explained.

Today, Katerina works intuitively across canvas and silk. She is drawn to the openness of the process, where an initial feeling can change through color, movement, material, and time. Silk, with its transparency and sensitivity to light, has become an important part of this exploration.

Her work is ultimately rooted in a simple question: how can something that begins inside us become present outside us, and perhaps meet someone else there?