Oleksa Konopelko
Oleksa Konopelko (born 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and composer living and working in Kamianske, Ukraine. In 2010, he founded the surrealist art group Mutafory LIli. Describing his artistic practice as a transcendental-psychedelic revelation, a sense of horror fanaticism and naive hilarity, he explores the ritualistic and mystical performed through the visual-sounding, combining dada methods.
Mutafory Lili
2022,
Poem, video, 3’
Telling about his artistic practice, artist Oleksa Konopelko describes it as a transcendental psychedelic revelation, a sense of horror combined with fanaticism and naive joyfulness. Invited to Uzhhorod by Sorry, No Rooms Available, he settled in the country house of the grandmother of one of the residency’s friends upon arrival. This picturesque refuge among the wilderness became a center of solitude for the artist, a place to construct his own fictional worlds. Poetry and music videos became the results of the artist's stay in this environment. The experience of immersion, intense interaction and, as a result, overcoming the fear of nature through mysticism and ritual practices, become an opportunity to restore the lost emotional resource.
Sorry No Rooms Available
October 8–November 12
Where Are We Now, After All Those Endlessly Repeated Words?
Curated by Petro Ryaska, Daria Shevtsova
