Three practices (VID)
This video project brings together three experimental practices that investigate spatial awareness, urban tension, and the body’s memory of conflict. Presented as a triptych of moving images, each piece unfolds a different aspect of post-Soviet urbanity and individual perception, constructed from lived experience and archive. Initiated in 2023, the work invites the viewer into a fragmented yet intimate visual dialogue.
C.V.I. L' (PERF)
C.V.I. L' is a performative series developed in 2022, exploring collective trauma and the intimate negotiation of bodily presence. Each iteration engages performers in a ritual of repetition and rupture, drawing from contemporary Eastern European realities. The project constructs a space where fragility becomes form, and resistance finds a voice through movement, silence, and durational acts.
albmanaX
albmanaX is a self-initiated publishing project combining fragments of text, photography, and visual annotation. It functions as an artist’s book and an autonomous exhibition space. The publication unfolds as a nonlinear archive of memory, resistance, and aesthetic speculation. Awarded at the Book Arsenal in 2022, it embodies the urgency to publish voices from the margin.
Houses for dead
This photographic series documents improvised memorials built for civilian victims in Ukraine. Made during 2022, it captures small, fragile structures—flowers, photos, candles—erected in public spaces. These houses for the dead resist erasure, transforming collective grief into visible presence. The project honors mourning as a form of protest.
Ptaxa
“Ptaxa” is a mixed-media project that explores themes of forced displacement, exile, and transformation through the recurring figure of the bird. Drawing on both personal and collective narratives of migration, the work uses fragile materials and ephemeral imagery to evoke the tension between flight and vulnerability. “Ptaxa” reflects on borders—physical and emotional—and their dissolution in times of crisis. Created in 2022, it resonates with the ongoing displacement experienced by Ukrainian civilians and artists alike.
ABW: Anorexia, Bulimia, War
“ABW” is a video essay connecting body politics and national trauma. Through a fragmented visual language, it explores the parallels between eating disorders and the psychological effects of war. Using both clinical footage and poetic voiceover, the piece builds a space where control, destruction, and survival intersect. Completed in 2023, the work is a haunting meditation on the violences we internalize.
Ceramics (Technique)
This body of work centers on ceramics as a tactile method of thinking and remembering. Each object is hand-built, often left unglazed to reveal texture, fragility, and gesture. Inspired by folk forms and contemporary abstraction, the ceramics balance tradition with experimentation. The series spans from 2021 to 2023 and includes site-specific installations an d intimate scale works.
Paper Drawings
A series of graphite and ink drawings created between 2020 and 2022. These works reflect on absence, memory, and spatial construction. Lines emerge as traces of movement and thought, invoking architectures both real and imagined. The paper becomes a site of excavation and vulnerability, grounding the practice in introspection and slow time.
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