Outside the Quadrangle

I collected photos of every room in which I had to live during 3 months of constant moving during the full-scale war. The lens of my camera divided the personal space. Having become a complete copy of concrete photos of apartments, the 3D model visualizes the fragmentation and selectivity of the photographic eye, pic exposes space to separate processes, as covid, the social networks and war do.

Russian Literature and Genocide

This installation includes a photograph of murdered civilians taken by Mykhaylo Palinchak in Bucha in April of 2022 after the liberation of the city from russian troops, as well as a number of books by classical russian writers such as Lermontov, Karazin, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev and others who exalted the russian empire and used the colonial narrative in their works.

Eye to eye

Ukrainian work from wartime period inspired a design that blends our ethnicity and tradition with contemporary mass market motifs. Emphasizing symmetry and palindromes, phrases like ‘око в око’ or ‘козак з казок’ are featured on vintage-market-sourced clothing. In response to a concerns about ‘fast fashion,’ this project champions sustainability by repurposing existing garments. All revenue will to Ukraine. It is crucial to support those who provide assistance. Photos: Alta Nguyen