Ruberoid (papa) is a randomly selected material, hanging in the nooks and crannies of rooms cleared for shelter. Over time, we came to understand that its structure corresponds to the structure of reality, with which we try to cope.
The appeal to this material is caused by the experience of lack of language. Verbal and visual languages, their shortcomings for the presentation of our experience, the lack of ethical and aesthetic reasons for such presentation. Ruberoid is a material that is excessively present in the everyday life of my childhood, such that it entered the tactile card file of memory. The spaces of the towns were filled with unfinished works, a frozen accumulation of materials that "someday will be needed". Among them, resinous paper seemed even grateful for children's entertainment and only for a while: it stuck to clothes and hair, made everything dirty, and eventually destroyed.
Mistaken for a building material, it was included in too many structures that were supposed to be temporary. He reliably hid a reserve of hopes for the development of the future (outdated model). They looked massive when we were kids. Such a medium of temporality makes it possible to explain our today in a better way. Delving into this resinous material is a memory mechanism, a familiar tactile one. This is a step back, which allows us to outline the emotional extremes that we face in danger, a certain behavioral degradation that a person undergoes in the circumstances of the greatest threat. Boundary situations that we experience or witness over and over again: in them, we are equal in our reactions to a baby: extremely defenseless, with exposed nerves. Here is the return to the first state of security known to the body - today the needs of scarcity.
Raised in unreliable fragile coordinate systems, we learn to build a stable world, a stable construct.
{ Ruberoid – roofing and waterproofing material made of layers of paper impregnated with resin}
The complete project was presented for the first time on April 24, 2024 in Dzyga, Lviv. The exhibition lasted until May 13, 2024.
Some of the works were created as part of the continuation of the Relative Security project in 2023 with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund @ucf.ua and the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
