A quiet urgency broods in this narrative still-life by Dim Yuz. His skilled tromp l'oeil technique delivers a tension between past memory and present activity: the well-worn black hat, the open umbrella, and the single string of keys are hung together as though they have been prepared for a quick getaway. Dmitry Yuzefovich creates a conceptual tension between what is real and what is memory. All his paintings come from memory and harken notions of a childhood full of mystery, trauma, and dilapidation. The nostalgia is nuanced here: there is fondness and complexity, safety and danger.

Born in 1974 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He lived and studied in Israel. Yuzefovich attended the Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel where he received a BFA in 2000 and an MFA in 2005. He moved to Canada with his family in 2015. All of Dmitry's work is a representation of memory. It often imagines the environment in which he lived in the past or tries to capture the memory of life in it. Dmitry creates visualizations of spaces and objects in which they combine to form a puzzle of personal and universal memories. In his oil paintings, a language is created based on the connection between memory fragments and the possibility of their implementation in the present. Yuzefovich has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions. His paintings have been collected in Israel, Canada, the US, England, and Europe.

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