Nadra
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Like flowing lava, there behind us,
Dark waters' currents try to blind us,
They roar, so we won't dare to tell
The truth about their own dark spell,
Their deeds that in darkness dwell.
Whose bones and whose bodies, pray,
Did the Earth in its depths convey?
Yar Slavutych (11/01/1948)
Nadra in Ukrainian means — something that lives in the depth of Earth. I come from the East of Ukraine, Donbas. All my family except me was involved in heavy industry production. Since the young age I was surrounded by the stories how people are going into the coal mine digging in complete darkness on their knees, or how shine of liquid iron makes a you blind. Look at these textures and colours related to minerals and nature are so relevant for art too. I have been thinking how all that happening in Ukraine connects, how a few entrepreneurs from west Europe come to the endless fields of Ukraine search for resource rich land, how local population become slaves on factories, but after industrial era is collapsed — oblivion and depression, and now war… and now we are coming here as refugees making a circle in a history.
I was thinking it is interesting to look at the STONES — basalt, coal, granite, salt and to give them a little of appreciation, in the end a lot of thing is happening because of them.
Dark waters' currents try to blind us,
They roar, so we won't dare to tell
The truth about their own dark spell,
Their deeds that in darkness dwell.
Whose bones and whose bodies, pray,
Did the Earth in its depths convey?
Yar Slavutych (11/01/1948)
Nadra in Ukrainian means — something that lives in the depth of Earth. I come from the East of Ukraine, Donbas. All my family except me was involved in heavy industry production. Since the young age I was surrounded by the stories how people are going into the coal mine digging in complete darkness on their knees, or how shine of liquid iron makes a you blind. Look at these textures and colours related to minerals and nature are so relevant for art too. I have been thinking how all that happening in Ukraine connects, how a few entrepreneurs from west Europe come to the endless fields of Ukraine search for resource rich land, how local population become slaves on factories, but after industrial era is collapsed — oblivion and depression, and now war… and now we are coming here as refugees making a circle in a history.
I was thinking it is interesting to look at the STONES — basalt, coal, granite, salt and to give them a little of appreciation, in the end a lot of thing is happening because of them.
The Hague, 2019
