Immersion 2024 (apartment exhibition)

The curatorial project ‘Immersion’, which arose as a result of the flooding of the basement where the artists' paintings were stored. All the works were created during the migration caused by the war in Ukraine from 2022 to the present. 

The project involves: 

Nikolay Karabinovych,   Nikita Kadan,    Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei,    Harri Kraievets, Oleh Perkovskyi,    Anatoliy Belov,    Hlib Yashchenko,    Pavlo Kovach (senior),    Leo Trotsenko,    Mark Chehodaiev,    Lena Dobner,    Anzhelika Polyvoda,    Vitalii Shupliak,    Dzvinya Podlyashetska,     Anna Nikitiuk,    Attila Hazhlinsky,    Yuriy Biley,   Oksana Kazmina. 

Different generations of artists are visually united by the theme of water as the main visual image. But each artist reveals his/her own personal story, which is accompanied by the question of identity crisis, often conveying a delicate moment of vulnerability and fragility of social relations.

Immersion in water also means a return to the pre-formal state, which on the one hand has the meaning of death and destruction, and on the other hand of rebirth and renewal, as immersion in water strengthens the vitality and inspires all creation. On a transcendental level, immersion is the equivalent of a global flood.

Water is the most important mediator between fire and air.

- is a reflection on the fragile state of the world order, or in a more abstract sense, it refers to ideological, cultural and social vulnerabilities.

This concept can also be understood in a purely personal sense:

a pre-formal state (a symbol of death and destruction; a symbol of rebirth and renewal); 

accordingly, the flood symbolises the vulnerability of the body and consciousness.  

P.S.

 The term ‘DIPPING’ is an action with the meaning of dip and submerge. Diving into water and flying into outer space have a lot in common. In both cases, a person... is in an environment that is not suitable for breathing