Veronika Cherednychenko
ARTIST STATEMENT
Nature, organic forms, growth dynamics, transformation, but also decay and death, fundamental and mundane processes for all living beings.
My artistic practice appeals to the unconscious, provoking the imagination in an attempt to look into the future or into oneself. In my projects, I combine different materials and techniques to fully immerse the viewer in the project: classic two-dimensional works (drawings or paintings) with moving images (video or VR) and sound.
After February 24th I started my new series `The First Week`. In the beginning, it was just to disengage from the constant stream of news and focus on something. It’s about the fear, numbness, and anxiety of the first days of the war, about the awareness of the fragility of the human body and life.
TARLE
A surreal reminiscence of home. The title is a reference to the name of the street in Kherson, the place where I spent my childhood. This is a city in the south of Ukraine that has been under Russian occupation for six months now.
Soviet panel buildings are laid out in a specific pattern, easily recognized from a bird’s-eye view, but deceitfully labyrinth-like if you are inside them.
Contours and boundaries lose their clarity once you get closer and try to remember the details. I am afraid that I am forgetting my home, which I left ten years ago, and which I started missing only now when it’s impossible to go back.
2022, video, 5:04 min
Price: TWD 114,700
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, pencil, paper, 55×55 cm
Price: TWD 49,600
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, pencil, paper, 55×55 cm
Price: TWD 49,600
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, pencil, paper, 55×55 cm
Price: TWD 49,600
– 50% of the price will be donated to Ukrainian Museum Crisis Center
2022, pencil, paper, 55×55 cm
Price: TWD 49,600
– 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.