This is a collection of works related to / growing from my research process on home-making in displacement and Ukrainian folk art.
related projects: (un)reality of safe haven
Supported by Chris Garnham Prize
Tutors: Joseph Pochodzaj, Sheena Calvert, YiMiao Shih.
Too Heavy To Hold, 2024
Steelbound publication, summarising my initial stage of research on home-making in displacement. There, I make connections between my memories, images in personal archives and the theory that was processed.
a fragment (no. 1) from an unnamed video essay, 2025
A video overview of a prompt-based activity, grounded in the principles of Ukrainian folk art, that resulted in a collective embroidered tapesty.
a fragment (no. 2) from an unnamed video essay, 2025
This fragment of the video essay put the collective tapestry, mentioned above, in a coversation with the archival materials of Ukrainian folk art and classic cinema.
Images used: ethno-historical albums “Ukraine and Ukrainians”, Ivan Honchar, 1960–90s
(source: online archive of The Ivan Honchar Museum National Centre of Folk Culture)