Subjective. Memory vertical
(gallery “ArtBasement”, Kharkiv, 2018)

Materials: pencil, paper.
Size (cm): 68*100, 100*68, 68*68

The project is based on the re-understanding of family ties and their role in life.
From birth we are tied up with the relatives by visible and invisible threads, which during the child separation become very obvious. This process determines her possibilities and decisions in an independent life. The exposition sets out a way from raising family relationships issues, accommodation of separation to adoption of its own disunity.
For a woman, the non-returning point in the separation from the family is marriage – a happy and at the same time a tragic moment of transition from one family to another, own one. There is a fear of losing touch with history appearing, there is a gradual departure from traditions and the creation of new ones ...
Everyone determines for himself the value of family memory, but its trace will always remain, regardless to the nationality, age, place of residence etc.
An elusive gesture - the cooking of dumplings - is repeated on family reunion. It is an unspoken tradition, it shows the connection - communication, jokes, discussion of plans for the future, etc. Defined object - a small, rounded form of product from a non-yeast dough with a variety of filling - has more meaning than traditional feasts.
As an innocent sacrifice, you allocate time for your family, even when you can not explain the cause of that inner need. At one moment, memory and communication become a burden, and separation is performed sharply. But traces of flour will always be on the clothes ...