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“Gulliver’s Dream” by Arsen Savadov

“The Last Selfie” by Oleksandr Roytburd

“Intermediate Reality” by Roman Mikhaylov

“Enantiodromy” by Victor Sydorenko

Show Promise opening of the exhibition

Show Promise, opening of the exhibition

From «Commedia dell’arte in Crimea» series by Arsen Savadov

“Plein Air” by Arsen Savadov

From «Industrial Zone» series by Borys Mikhailov

“Bonobo” by Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey

“O Lovely Maidens, Fall in Love” by Natsprom (Oleg Tistol and Mykola Matsenko)

Sculpture by Eygen Samborskiy

“Scars” by Nazar Bilyk

“4” by Oleksa Furdijak

“Wooden Story” by Stepan Ryabchenko

“What Can I Give to You? What Can You Take?” by Roman Minin

“Corinthian Сolumn That Had Fallen” by Oleksiy Sai

“Encouraging” by Vlodko Kaufman

“Beehive” by Anton Logov

“Seesaw. 12 Stars” by Rostyslav Koterlin

“Erasure/Filling” by Sergiy Petlyuk

Sculpture by Victor Sydorenko

“Caliber of Death” by Yulia Kysil

Video “Game With No Rules” by Andriy Sydorenko

From “Industrial Zone” series by Borys Mikhailov

“Forbes” by Vinny Reunov

“Forbes” by Vinny Reunov, fragment

“Trust” by Robert Saller

“Nobody Knew” by Olexa Mann

“Missing Motherland” by Vlada Ralko

“Missing Motherland” by Vlada Ralko, fragment

“Base of Insects” by Vasyl Tsagolov

“Pink Foursquare” by Rostyslav Koterlin

“4” by Oleksa Furdijak

“4” by Oleksa Furdijak, fragment

“Bonobo” by Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey

“Bonobo” by Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey, fragment

“Enantiodromy” by Victor Sydorenko

“The Sick Elders and Children” by Rostyslav Koterlin

Works by Rostyslav Koterlin

“Don’t Walk On The Water” by Andriy Sagaydakovskiy

“Room of Laughter” by Andriy Sagaydakovskiy

“Landscape” by Andriy Sagaydakovskiy

“The Warrior” by Andriy Sagaydakovskiy

“Happy Life” by Andriy Sagaydakovskiy

“Foolishness of the Beauty” by Anatoliy Gankevych

“Foolishness of the Beauty” by Anatoliy Gankevych, fragment

“Beehive” by Anton Logov

“Beehive” by Anton Logov, fragment

“Intermediate Reality” by Roman Mikhaylov, fragment

From “Penetration series” by Mykyta Shaleniy

“VowBox” by Oleg Voronko

Work by Igor Gusev

“2029 1489” by Rostyslav Koterlin

“Explosion of Suprematism” by Anatoliy Gankevych

“Hysterics” by Gamlet Zinkovskiy

“Hysterics” by Gamlet Zinkovskiy, fragment

“Silence Enhancer” by Gamlet Zinkovskiy

“Whitening of the Past Does Not Change Its Essence” by Gamlet Zinkovskiy

“Were is Far which is Closer” by GAZ group

“Show Promise”, fragment of the exposition

Today we observe collapse of any preinstalled orders. Degree of turbulence is constantly increasing as disasters keep happening, territories keep being annexed, countries are being destroyed, the wars start and terror goes on, politics go through a conservative right turn… Many troubling processes that a person cannot explain happen because the world is being submerged into a state of “liquid modernity”. This is the name of one of the latest books by recently deceased philosopher Zygmunt Bauman. It contains a range of metaphors and physical comparisons, which materialize with apparent acceleration. The book proposes an idea of liquidity, blurring and transparency of the world. The world becomes liquid. Liquids can gain any form but lack the capability to keep it. So is modern world – it is constantly and unpredictably changing, and therefore can be hardly understood or controlled.

The pressure of reality on a “melting” mind is colossal. Goals are being blurred as well as the values and norms, they change quickly and kaleidoscopically and for that reason can no longer serve as a basis for people’s rational behaviour – the irrationality reigns. Philosophers also talk about the “big modernity” in the meaning of “Big Time”, where different times co-exist. . “This is a hybrid flickering of many timelines and total contemporaneity. And this totalisation is hard to be lived in and felt. And it is what’s malfunctioning now”, – hard to argue with this statement of Katie Chukhrov.
But situation’s duality of all this chaos is amplified by the “container of the possibilities”, with some of them not yet uncovered and others already lost. We seemingly found ourselves in unusual showroom, a sort of a “waiting room”, where arises a possibility to turn off this flickering and totality, to end this exhausting situation of permanent liquidity and come for the transition of post modernism and its obsession with a new utopia… We are living through hopes and prayers. Hope can be misleading and delusional and therefore pernicious, but it can also be a saving stimulus that drags out of the abyss, supports the will to live, even in the most troublesome times.
In time of total show that erases borders between reality and fiction, and replaces meanings of fundamental categories of life, among all the disturbances, the only constant thing is a human’s striving for better future. An instability, collapse of settled schemes and relationships that knock the ground under the feet along with the confidence in tomorrow – they open more space for the immaterial – faith or nihilism, doubts, fears, hopes. In search for clues and support in this shaky and changeable space it is art, that in order to keep its visual influence, appears to be one of the most reliable and sometimes one of the most ideally accurate instrument not only for the fast reflection but it also becomes an explorer of the future. Without laying the straight, populist and “comfortable” way, it is still capable to mark the path with a dotted line and define the reference points.

Curators of the project: Igor Abramovych, Oleksander Solovyov

Participating artists:

Nazar Bilyk

Oleg Voronko

Anatoliy Gankevich

Igor Gusev

Yuriy Efanov

Gamlet Zinkovskiy

Vlodko Kaufman

Yulia Kysil

Pavlo Kerestey

Alina Kleitman