In his creative practice, Mykola Matsenko explores the problem of identity in today’s globalized world, the rethinking of cultural and historical experience, the interaction of tradition and mass culture. Reinterpreting folklore and avant-garde and ironically reproducing the aesthetics of modern everyday life, fixed in stereotypes and objects of material culture, the artist outlines the complex contours of contradictory reality. His works are rich in symbols and contain many historical and cultural allusions and quotations. On this basis, the author creates his own symbolic system, personal “heraldry”, which often paradoxically combines habitual and extraordinary, beautiful and fearful, likes and phobias, past and present, from which the ornament of reality is woven.