Legacy Gallery

This project is about the catastrophe in Chernobyl and its’ former inhabitants, their feelings and emotions. By installing this project, I would like the people who come near it to feel the atmosphere of a deserted city, hopelessness, pain, despair. So that they can come, touch and carefully examine the exhibits. For people to rethink their lives and whether it is worth producing nuclear weapons. What do we have left in the end?

This project was inspired by the traditional Ukrainian embroidered vestries. People from back then used to believe that every such vestry had a symbolic meaning and had them on as charms. It’s even been told that they could change a man’s fate. This idea still has appeal, so I’m positioning this project as a reaction to the issues of today. Old embroidered symbols versus the problems of modernity.

A human is part of nature. Throughout the history of mankind, he has always been tied to it. But over the last century this relationship has begun to crumble, with the advent of synthetic materials as alternatives. How did people relate to natural materials in the past and today? As man finds himself lost in a rapidly increasing amount of synthetics, he loses touch with nature and with himself, more and more.

With each passing year, we lose more and more of our ancestors’ legacy from long ago. Some of it disappears forever. Some of it gets preserved. Some of it survives only in part. This series is intended to raise awareness about how the Kyiv an historical monuments disappear one by one. The ornament was formed out of wheat roots, by nature itself, on top of tiles from the Imperial Russia era (from late 19th to early 20th century). Those historical artifacts were provided by a historian from Kyiv.

Combination of gestures, roots and shadows.

Photos from various exhibitions.