APEIRON
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Dates2019 - 2019
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Author
- Topics Fine Art, Archive
- Location Ukraine, Ukraine
For more than 30 years these negatives had been laying in dilapidated, looted houses, being subject to very slow degradation under the influence of radiation and the elements of nature.
The APEIRON is an abstract series that consists of found old films that were lost and forgotten several decades ago in the cities and villages of Chernobyl. For more than 30 years these negatives had been laying in dilapidated, looted houses, being subject to very slow degradation under the influence of radiation and the elements of nature. Passing through stages of disappearance, erasure, and decay, they retained the traces of evidence of bodies or things that left their mark on the photosensitive film emulsion.
The Apeiron series shows images on the films which lost their former meaning, it is no longer possible to identify what was there from the very beginning, but this is where a new piece of art appears. New forms created with radiation and nature, new meanings, which the viewer discovers for himself, are born in these destructions.
To let go of the facts, but also to go towards the self-contradiction in representing the facts to reach a certain artistic pursuit; leaving behind the spiritual and transcendental sphere, depriving it of semantic meaning, diving on deep feelings and immersing yourself into the flow of subjective consciousness and metaphysical imagery, playing with the human eye, which ceased to read out the images as clear and accessible to it.