The ongoingproject explores collective and personal experiences of loss. I approachthis theme shapedby my Ukrainian background and
experience of personal and collective trauma,responding to a shared experience of loss. During the process of creating the wooden
sculptures, I traced the transformation of the rage that I feel every day, which more and more gave way to pain, sadness and mourning.
I explored the void and fragmentation of identity that remains and deepens with each day. Working with each objectbecomes a way to think about a lost loved one, materialising experience.
Working with wood became a process of calming and emotional
processing. Paintingthese sculptures became an act of payingrespect and thinking about one’s own losses, since loss exists in every life,
turning it into a physical object,devoting oneself personally, surrendering to these emotions and analysing them.
The work is dedicated to people whose lives were taken, who have left their homes, and for whom the chances of returning decrease with every passing day. This is the nature that was destroyed. These are ideas that will never be realised, and the future that never came for some of us.
The installation changes throughout the exhibition period through audience participation.
