Vira, of Ukrainian origin, is a contemporary figurative artist based in Lugano, Switzerland.

Her work has been exhibited in New York, Rome, and Lugano.

Through painting, she transforms the body into a living language, where desire rises through skin, memory settles into gesture, and the visible world opens onto the subconscious. Her figures inhabit a charged space between intimacy and nature, carrying traces of touch, longing, and ancestral remembrance. Flesh becomes landscape; the landscape, in turn, becomes an inner terrain shaped by instinct, dream, and the quiet persistence of what cannot be consciously recalled. Her symbolic images invite viewers to move beyond appearances and enter the hidden currents connecting the body to the natural world and to the depths of the psyche. She also writes and publishes books. In her free time, she enjoys playing with her dog and walking with her in the forest, where shifting light, roots, and animal presence continue to nourish her sense of memory and wonder.