Lesia Vasylchenko

Lesia Vasylchenko (born in Kyiv, Ukraine; lives in Oslo, Norway) works across a range of media including video, photography and installation. In her research-based practice, Vasylchenko explores encounters between visual cultures, media technologies and the politics of time. She is a co-curator of the artist-run gallery space “Podium” and the founder of “STRUKTURA. Time”, a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice in visual arts, media archaeology, literature and philosophy. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv and a degree in Fine Arts from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Vasylchenko’s work has been recently exhibited at MUNCH Museum, Henie Onstad Art Center and Kunsthall Oslo. Vasylchenko’s works are part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.

Chronosphere

2024,
Video installation, sizes variable, 8:30 min

Focusing on the ongoing war in Ukraine, Chronosphere explores the role of surveillance technologies in shaping human and more-than-human temporalities coexisting on our planet. Chronosphere is a parafictional story about the weaponization of time, from the picosecond synchronization of satellites to the deep time of ecological trauma. Originally conceived as single-channel, the video piece seeks to visualize our position in the Chronosphere, this ever-changing cloud of past events and future probabilities swirling around us at every passing moment. Using CGI animation, Synthetic-aperture radar data, filmed footage and AI-generated imagery, Chronosphere is a witness statement to be presented before the speculative court of Time. From the gradual melting of glaciers to the enduring scars of oil and lithium extraction, from the devastation of bomb-scarred grain fields to the instability of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, we see the speculative apocalyptic future threaten to unfold within every timescale. For A Time in Pieces, Vasylchenko has created a site-specific multi-channel installation of the work.

exhibition
berlin

Between Bridges, daadgalerie
May 24–July 27

A Time in Pieces

Curated by Serge Klymko and Viktor Neumann