Original artwork description:

This work was at my solo exhibition "Window with a View" in Kas, Türkiye in 2025.

This series explores fragments of the familiar — walls, vessels, and roots — as carriers of memory and lived tension. Domestic materials such as old wallpaper, concrete, and soil hold traces of childhood, shelter, and belonging, while revealing their vulnerability to rupture and displacement.

In dialogue with Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, the works shift from distant abstraction to everyday proximity. In the sculpture with the sailboat, a fragile model encounters the weight of concrete — not as a symbol of an event, but as a physical condition that interrupts movement.

The sailboat does not represent escape or arrival; it marks persistence. The series reflects a reality shaped by life in Ukraine, where continuity exists not as certainty, but as the fragile decision to keep moving within resistance.

Materials used:

concrete, ship model

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