I am going home to eat mulberries from the tree. KATYA LESIV

An art book by artist Katya Lesiv, grounded in sensory experience, myth, and female corporeality. The body appears as a moving vessel of memory, returning to the safety and pleasure of the childhood ritual of eating mulberries from the tree. Set against the backdrop of an unpredictable and fragile world, the artist’s work becomes a soft yet resilient gesture of presence, remembering, and returning.

I am going home to eat mulberries from the tree brings together performative series from 2023–2024 and the author’s poetic essay. The analogue photographs balance on the verge of instruction, spell, and poetry. The book unfolds through the triad milky / bloody / muddy, symbolically echoing the taste of mulberries and the layered language of motherhood, loss, and the life cycle.

Katya Lesiv (b. 1993, Ukraine) is a visual artist and photographer. Her practice explores themes of cyclicality, physicality, emotional experience, and motherhood through photography, artist books, installation, text, and moving image. Often rooted in routine rituals, her performative approach seeks to preserve intimacy while creating spaces of shared presence. Books play a central role in her work, frequently becoming the final form of her projects.

Her photobook Lullaby 1 was included in the top 100 photobooks of How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks), and her book I love you was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook Awards in 2022.

Team

Publisher: ist publishing

Author of the idea, images, texts and design: Katya Lesiv

Literary Editor and English translator: Liza Biletska

Proofreading: Iryna Kurhanska

Project management: Nastia Leonova, Kateryna Nosko