Date: 07 May 2022
Place: Łaźnia II Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
Duration: 1 hour
The essence of the Performance.
Tools:
mid-20th-century hanmade hemp canvas (50*90 cm) made in Ukraine
hands
wooden stick
Action.
The canvas is meditatively disassembled during the performance. The thread is continuous and doesn’t not break.
The thread is wound on a small stick. It became similar to a spindle for spinning canvas as a result.
Performance #2. Here’s the tale I have to tell you
photo by Dmytro Krasnyi
Date:
05 Nov
2022
Place:
on the territory of a hospital in the Nowy Port, Gdansk, Poland.
Duration - 15 minutes
As part of the Port Art Residency by Mewka Gallery
The essence of the Performance.
Tools:
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several pieces of canvas 50*90 cm
- basin with red paint
- stretched rope
- hands
Action 1.
The first piece of textile is put into the basin with red paint.
The canvas becomes completely saturated with paint.
It is laid out in front of the audience on the grass.
Action 2.
The second piece of textile is placed on top of the first red piece.
Hands press one textile to another, making imprints of the paint on the second piece.
The second piece is placed with the imprinted side up on the grass.
Actions 3-5.
Each next piece of a textile is imprinted from the previous one with red colour. It continues several times until there is no red imprints left.
Action 6.
All printed pieces are hung on a stretched rope from the last one to the first.
Action 7.
The pieces fall to the ground one by one. Only the first red piece stays on a rope
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Curating text by Natalia Revko:
We are telling stories about ourselves and the world around — how does it change a story itself?
What is the imprint telling us? Firstly saturated and bright, it loses colors with each attempt to repeat. We can perceive this process as oblivion, erasure, loss. But also we can see this as a purification and release.
Performance #3. Remains
Date: 02 Dec 2022
Place: yard of MEWKA gallery, Gdańsk, PL.
Duration: 20 minutes
As a part of the Port Artistic Residency by MEWKA Foundation
The essence of the Performance.
Tools:
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mid-20th-century hanmade hemp canvas (50*80 cm) made in Ukraine
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soil
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time
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hands
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shovel
Action 1. End of August 2022
A piece of canvas 50*80 cm is buried in the ground manually.
Action 2. December 2, 2022.
The remains of the canvas is dug up from the ground with a shovel and hands. The size of the pieces is from 2 to 20 cm, the number is up to 20 separate pieces.
Performance #4. Net
Date: 08 Sept 2023
Place: Gallery EL, Elbląg, PL.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
The essence of the Performance.
Tools:
- mid-20th-century hanmade hemp canvas (50*80 cm) made in Ukraine
- soil
- handmade net
Action: a 7 m long canvas was manually torn into 4 cm pieces. Then, each segment was left in the ground and tied to a 1.2*1.5 m net.
*This work is devoted to weaving camouflage nets for military purposes
