180 х 120 cm
Video 2′22″, wooden platbands, electric icon lamp, chipboard, quicklime, wood, tempera
awakening
2024 / Installation
"Awakening" — an altar assembled by me, rethought through the prism of roots and formed inner self. An echo from childhood, a place where such a characteristic of time as duration, its flow, was clearly felt in the air, smells, sounds and silence of the house, in the regularity of everydayness.
Perhaps, everyone has such "space of time". Sharing mine, I invite you to memories about forgotten cherished points to which ones we can return.
Red corner is a sacred space at home, where the day begins and ends, with a prayer on lips, place of being of something inexplicable in everydayness.
exhibition / public talk with baba nastya
main ingredients
"Awakening" is a reflection on my perception of time, on traveling and moving within my own life, into the past, to the place where memories preserve the sense of the duration of time. A place where stashes are hidden, secrets from childhood, messages—reminders that time has not changed. What has changed is my perception of events.
I wonder: why is this feeling of serenity, peace, leisure, and freedom being lost? The space I recreate in my work is a place of strength, of my formation, a cornerstone in the foundation of my perception of the world.
While working on the project, my experiences prompted me to seek stability and sustainability. Mentally, I traveled back to my childhood, to the village, to the house where I grew up.

This prompted me to recreate a retrospective object in which one can feel protected, since for many people, childhood is a place of carefreeness and joyful anticipation of the future.