Vladislav Yurashko was born in 1970 in Poltava (Ukrainian SSR). Graduated from Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts. In Kharkov, under the influence of passion for photography (including in the circle of Boris Mikhailov), his painting acquires the property of detachment, viewing the subject “through the prism” of photography, through the materiality of the film or the noise of the television screen. These qualities, while maintaining a connection with the southern tradition, crystallize into a recognizable pictorial manner, in the project “19/91” (2012, jointly with Vika Shumskaya), dedicated to the events of 1991, as a kind of “rift” in people’s minds and the inability to “remember” the truth of what is happening 20 years later, when memory is replaced by a set of images from the mass media. The artist lives and works in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.