Lyubov Kucheryavaya is an artist, an illustrator and a set-designer born in Simferopol, Crimea in 1984. Artist’s pseudonym, Love Curly, is a literal translation of her name. Currently lives and works in Kyiv. In 2006 Lyubov graduated from the Architecture Course at the National Academy of Environmental Protection and Development. Love Curly currently works as an illustrator for the non-commercial TISSUE Magazine. The artists says: “All of my works have a sexual connotation. For me drawing is a kind of therapy, only in the process of art making I can feel positive vibrations. It helped to shape my idea of sex, neutralize all the negative stereotypes I had before and purify the very notion of sex. In order to have sex you need to get naked not only in a literal sense, but this process also requires a certain level of trust in a partner and acceptance of yourself. When all the tags and labels fall down, it gets much easier to understand the nature of your genuine desires, accept them with no judgment or embarrassment. My work tells how to love yourself and help others find this feeling”.