Tania Bakum
I am a multidisciplinary artist, working in Kyiv, Ukraine.
My main artistic media are alternative photographic printing methods, performance, and textiles. In my work, I often use found, inherited, or culturally significant materials, considering them as carriers of memory. My creative process has a ritual character and is focused on experimenting with materials and their transformation under the influence of time and external factors.
I work with themes of war, loss, forced migration, intergenerational trauma, as well as gender-conditioned social roles and taboos. I explore how these phenomena are embedded in daily rituals, bodily practices, and domestic spaces, and how they are preserved in intergenerational memory.
My practice draws attention to the ways people try to preserve meaning and their own identity in conditions of instability and change, examining processes of transformation and the transmission of cultural and social experience.