Mira Bachkur
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my artworks, flesh and body have more than just a physical dimension, they are part of a new, ever-changing model of my reality. It is the result of my own worldview changes, self-improvement, search, and reaction to the deformation of the world.
I analyze the present and the past, compare and search for common ground. I convey these similarities and differences on the canvas, sometimes they recreate the future.
After the full-scale war started, I didn’t change the main topics of my art practice. I was already working with themes of dialogues, roots of traditions, the nature of cruelty, and memory. I chose these topics a long time ago as a lifetime’s research. Now they are more relevant than ever.
A GAME
Everything in this world exists in one moment, just a moment. We are all made of distorted memories.
A game is being played in a pool of blood… Because something alien is there, it has invaded, infested, it wants to take everything away, to rip this time of carelessness away.
Losses… to cope with the loss of control, to strengthen your borders. But how to explain the emptiness? There, where the rivers cry.
A DAY
An album, one day—one shoot. The image itself is not that important, it is the day that matters.
For Ukrainians, everything changed on February 24th, after the full-scale invasion of Russia.
We didn’t have the spring, we didn’t have the summer, it is still February 24th. Now we count the days of the war, regardless of where we are.
While the album dates are changing as they should, you also see my personal count of days in Taiwan and a day of the war in Ukraine.
“A Game”, 2021, video, 0:19 min
2022, oil on canvas, 80×100 cm
Price: TWD 93,000
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, oil on canvas, 80×100 cm
Price: TWD 93,000
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, oil on canvas, 80×100 cm
Price: TWD 93,000
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, oil on canvas, 53х41 cm
Price: TWD 27,900
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, oil on canvas, 53х41 cm
Price: TWD 27,900
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
“A day”, 2022, photo album, 37 shots
Price: TWD 27,900
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
About
FRONTIER OF THE MEMORY.
Special Ukrainian project on Taiwan Annual
Curator – Marta Trotsiuk
Artists:
- Myroslava Bachkur
- Zirka Savka
- Veronika Cherednychenko
Artists of the online exhibition:
- Denys Metelin
- Taras Haida
At the invitation of the Association of Visual Arts in Taiwan and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan and Taipei Representative Office in Poland.
Curatorial text
“Hello dear viewer,
you are looking at a project which was created in Taipei by three artists and a curator from Ukraine. Memory and its different aspects is the main topic here. The art research touches our personal experience as individuals who are living and creating in a certain time of the history of our civilization. We believe we are now on the edge of shifting tectonic plates of human evolution, facing the creation of fundamental principles through conflicts.
We ourselves were dragged into the epicenter of the process, into war. Living through it, we analyze and reconsider many aspects of our past, trying to pay special attention to the present and fight for our future. We do this through art and with the tool of our memory.”
Marta Trotsiuk, curator of the exhibition.