The Wood / Paper project was implemented jointly with Oleksiy Malykh. Presented in 2021 at the Imagine Point Gallery.
Curator - Oleksiy Malykh.

The works included in the exhibition were created in the last 2 years of practice.
Paper, as a carrier of information, is a document that, despite its fragility, can give meaning. It preserves the baggage of intellectual and cultural heritage. It is on paper that we witness our birth, baptism and death.

Paper can provide a spatial dimension of memory. It manifests the materiality of the intangible in such intense peace. This material, burdened with sacred meanings, is able to renew the sense of spatial and bodily dimensions in our existence.

The installations themselves become vulnerable boundaries between the planes of the sacred and the earthly. Our collective memory lacks a common denominator to make a clear distinction between these planes. Destroyed objects of the cult of religion or the cult of the epoch show a cyclical desacralization. Here the print is a note, evidence of a lost, devalued artifact, its transition to a new plane.
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Individual objects and their set are presented in the installations as forms of home iconostasis. The iconostasis itself exists on tangent worlds. The barrier that separates us from the saint becomes an independent object of adoration. The home iconostasis in today's life is a natural phenomenon that arose due to the obsessive desire of man to protect himself and his home by creating a small sanctuary in it. This religious space moves to public spaces, pursuing objects to be guarded.

We do not feel safe. We do not trust institutions, but we do not rely on ourselves. Charms of sacred content are a clear symptom of this.

Material: paper / monotype, blind embossing.

Photos: Kateryna Dobrovolska / Imagine Point

Compositions 2, 3, 4 - reproduce household home iconostases, human attempts to add holiness and feelings to protect life.

Compositions 1, 5, 6, 7 were collected in a large iconostasis presented within the framework of the imprint. Ukrainian printed graphics of the XX-XXI centuries in the artistic arsenal in 2020.

Installations at first sight look like fragments of classical high iconostasis with all inherent tectonic elements. When approaching the object manifests itself to its true structure - more abstract, allegorical. The frame "Iconostasus" make hundreds of reliefs. Sami elements of this frame, and not icons exhibit true objects of worship. Since we are in the earthly part of the temple - only material symbols, objects that became objects of adopation were used sacrificed by our society.

Compositions 5 and 6 - fragments of the first base range placed along with the northern and southern inputs of the iconostasis. Icons are absent - since we are still / constantly waiting for those who will save us.

Composition 7 - Central Entrance - Rate

Composition 8.

The work was created within the framework of the residence of the International Modernism for the future 360/365, which took place in Lviv in the first half of 2021. The presented composition was exhibited at an official presentation in a private room where a residence took place. Work is one of the installations created during a residence. The comprehensive project will be presented with other works of participants in international residences in Kaunas in January 2022. The composition itself reproduces the brinks, which in the Jewish house was placed on the eastern wall as an appeal to the House of Israel. In a match on the street. The princely paper composition found a place on the wall indicating a lost home: at the installation site was once an entrance to the rest of the room that was lost due to many circumstances.