Tatsiana Yaroshyk Ionet, born on Belarusian soil, now sculpts her voice in Carrara, where
marble flows like rivers of frozen light through the mountains. Her creative path began in
international marketing, crowned with a Master’s degree in Sweden. Yet when her husband’s
engineering work led them to Italy, she found herself at a quiet threshold—where longing
met possibility—and stepped into a long-silenced dream. She enrolled in the Academy of
Fine Arts in Carrara, choosing design as her true medium of expression.
In this city of stone and sunlight, she discovered marble not only as material, but as
metaphor. Noble and ancient, marble spoke in contrasts: light and shadow, memory and
forgetting, presence and absence. Her Symbol series was born from longing for homeland.
In the pale veins of the stone, she saw birch trees standing like sentinels of memory, domes
of golden churches glowing like distant suns, and the Matryoshka—eternal vessel of layered
identity.
Her lamps and candlesticks cradle more than light; they hold echoes. Each piece is a
meditation on duality—East and West, origin and reinvention, starlight and buried time.
The Matryoshka Lamp, both relic and revelation, was exhibited at Fuorisalone 2025 in Milan,
honored in the “Unleash Your Creativity” competition, while the full ”Symbols” collection was
selected for Carrara’s “con_vivere“ festival.
Tatsiana’s work is a dialogue of shadows and illumination—a testament to how stone can
remember, and light can restore.
