From the "Prayers" series. The Torah

The art of Valeriya Matveeva-Nibiru stands out for both its delicacy and ferocity. Visitors to the artist’s site are greeted by her favorite heroine - a magical little girl, like a phantom spider’s web, woven of white lines on a coal-black background. The girl is being pulled in by claws and tentacles to a monster that has arisen from those depths of the subconscious that can only be compared to the Mariana Trench, a type of crab-stingray-octopus combination. Аs in Nature, there is nothing more resilient than a web, and this is also true for the webs created from linear drawings of fairytale girls. 
The strength of the web can be justified by its purpose –
it is a weightless spatial structure, an artificial screen, where desire must steadily materialize in its most ruthless form. Merciless beauty, as the embodiment of desire on the brink of
death, holds fascination.

Text: Ekaterina Andreeva