Myroslav Yaremak
Myroslav Yaremak (born in 1963) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk. He studied at Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts and Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. He began to exhibit his work in the late 1980s in Lviv. He was one of the key figures in creating the driver of cultural life in Ivano-Frankivsk in the 1990s, known as the “Stanislav phenomenon.” He is considered to have coined this term. In his practice, Yaremko explores the sphere of myth (mythology, mystification, imitation) of the art process. The priority is not so much the created artifact as the figure of the creator, a responsible member of society.
The Subject of Degradation
2023,
installation
I started thinking about contemporary art in 1982-83. Time merged, but each year was a different life. Something was happening. Because of the ‘here and now’ attitude, we are unable to understand what Impreza was. I’m interested in the plot of development because I need to unfold everything into a coherent picture. If you don’t break it down into causes and effects, nothing will be clear. My work is a message that if you want to understand, you need to unwind phenomena retrospectively and divide them into sequences. This installation is about fragility. It overlaps the themes of the spatial and temporal periphery of war. I’m already at the age of a senior citizen finishing my artistic activities, so I want to grapple with my artistic practice. Now, I direct my gaze backward. I have been considering the subject as a particular artistic and aesthetic entity since 1989. At the first Impreza, I presented “artistic subjects” and received the first prize in the Assemblage category. Later, I worked on this topic for many years. It is essentially a meeting of cold material with the “animated” bionic movement, which shapes a certain living being locked in space. When an artist works with an object, the latter comes to life and becomes a subject. The inanimate comes to life by being filled with life. Over time, everything takes this form, as it is now, the subject of degradation.
Asortymentna kimnata
October 7–October 30
On The Periphery Of War
Curated by Alona Karavai, Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk, Anton Usanov
Commissioned by the Kyiv Biennial