Ukrainian Pastoral

The idealized depiction of naive scenes of simple rural life against the background of nature is replaced by new pieces of the eclectic post-Soviet space and naive attempts of almost fictional characters to live in a new way.

In addition, this way of articulation ironically imitates the distortion of the modern folk-utilitarian habit of adapting all new phenomena to one surreal reality.

Olha Zaremba

The presented paintings originate from a random photograph of a fragment. It is like a short-term awakening of vision from a dream, which accidentally catches a gigantic monumental artifact frozen in anabiosis and that completely does not fit into the view of an ordinary person — which makes it completely invisible. In contrast, a series of transparent photographs act as membranes and archives of memory, the ultimate emanation of memories from short-term awakenings in the past.

In working with wood, there is a desire to remember and depict the most valuable memory. Therefore, this memory flows in a cut that ironically has to kill the living in order to encourage others to learn his past or potential future.

Nikita Tsoy

In this series of works, the hypersensitivity of stylistic dissonance allows for all kinds of corrections at all stages of the use of the main actors in space. Sometimes, the images simulate ordinary household photography in a random situation. The heroes of the images parody constant pastoral motifs, although this time their drama takes place within the framework of new everyday situations. By printing random pieces of photography in the layered flesh of the painting, he creates a complete uncertainty of content within the fairly clearly determined framework of the genre.

Andrii Pidlisnyi 

The actions of objects assembled from post-industrial random parts and mechanisms mimic a momentary image in which the object is a veil, a remnant of the reflexive nature of the primal source experiencing a break in its continuous history and, as a result, simulates a current set of connections with the environment.

In the artist's works, ruthless evolution drives cattle into a cycle of dependence or accidentally generates a pattern that gives an association with both a folk pattern and a checkered bag.

The insides of the mechanisms and the set of actions wrapped in textures are looking for a way to explain themselves through the tactility, rustle and light of the new quasi-life of the post-industrial economy.

Text written by: Nikita Tsoy