Natalia Kushnir
Nataliia Kushnir (Natusya) is an artist, working with painting, sculptural objects, video and installations. She studied Painting at the Odesa Art Сollege named after M.B. Greek and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. In her artistic practice, she is interested in exploration of individuals, their participation in social life and survival strategies. Using recycled materials and artifacts found on the street, she transforms the ordinary life scenarios by rethinking objects and their purpose, rediscovering their functionality. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Odesa community of artists OSRZ-2.
Someone
2022-2023,
Installation, video, clay, enamel, glass, 4’
Someone by Nataliia Kushnir is dedicated to unknown people: the artist reflects on the connection with those who are an invisible part of us or our community, whom we have known once or never met, with those who, unfortunately, have disappeared from our lives and will never return. The series started at the beginning of the full-scale invasion when an acute, all-encompassing sense of loss accompanied each new day. A dark hotel room is illuminated by a TV screen showing a person who has either appeared or disappeared in the forest. The artist recreates her room – a space once inhabited but later abandoned, as if in a hurry and for an unknown reason. Only a little handmade model helps to imagine what it used to be like, to find the voids and traces of things that have disappeared. We can feel the human presence here through the TV sets: frozen in time, they slowly dissolve the nameless silhouettes shown on them. By creating a shared space for memory and recollection, the artist reveals the invisible ties that bind us to each other and the places we had to leave.
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October 8–November 12
Where Are We Now, After All Those Endlessly Repeated Words?
Curated by Petro Ryaska, Daria Shevtsova
