Private tour of an exhibition that cannot be visited, 2024
15’ audio
This tour emerged as an intersection of time and realities, a way to share the inaccessible, a desire to draw closer to what is lost. After it was recorded, I learned that this exhibition in our family apartment in Luhansk no longer exists—the apartment was seized by the military. All the works that were displayed there, I brought in 2017 as an act of trying to preserve a connection with an already occupied city. These are works by friends who have never been to my city and may never visit. Yet, some of them occasionally dream that we walk there together.
“Once a year, even a stick fires.”
300 × 250 cm
wooden sticks, 2023
In this work, I refer to a shared human experience that remains legible even in an unarticulated form. I believe these deep-seated images exist somewhere between rationalization and the persistent ways perception and meaning are transmitted. Phenomena and events of the past cast a shadow onto the future, and this shadow grows alongside us.
“They Saw the Old Lighthouse”
60 × 80 cm
sea shells, sand, textile 2024
This spontaneous intervention in the space of a newly built shopping center in Ukrainka is an attempt to find a language for speaking about the temporarily occupied island of Dzharylhach. In the summer of 2021, the artist visited the island for the last time with friends. From that trip, she brought back various shells found along the shore near the old lighthouse.
“Searching for a safe place”
180 × 83 paper, print 2022
— Where is the safest place?
— I think it doesn’t exist, because even my own body is never a safe place, and it doesn’t truly belong to me.