Natura Morta, photography series (2022)
There’s a black square of freshly laid asphalt on the intersection in downtown Kyiv. A couple of weeks ago there was a huge hole left after another Russian missile strike. Each time I see such holes or buildings ruined to the ground, it seems to me that these explosions bring the past to the surface together with soil. Einstein once declared that time is not linear; it’s not merely a sequence of good and bad events. All that happens can coexist and interlay in the spacetime continuum. The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. What was in the place of the destroyed building thousands of years ago? Maybe, an ocean with giant crabs floating in its ominous waters? On the intersection in downtown Kyiv, life seems to be back on track now. One day, all the events of our present will become history written in textbooks. All the pain and emotions will turn into statistics. All the signs of our routine will go to dust, mixing with many other artifacts of the past and future. Sooner or later, our lives, belongings, traumas, and even bodies will disappear forever or become a part of museum expositions. Now, within the period of intensified historical processes in Europe, we witness history in the making, not yet cataloged and conceptualized.
Technique: Silver gelatine darkroom prints, multiple exposures, 18x24, 2022
Exhibitions:
1. Zefir. The Wind of Change (group exhibition), Culture and Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania (2022, November)
1. Zefir. The Wind of Change (group exhibition), Culture and Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania (2022, November)
2. Kyiv Emerging (group exhibition), Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany (January, 2023)
