“Internal Elements – 2nd cohort”, Program of residences, for artists at risk took place with the support of artist at risk and UNESCO from October 15 to December 15.
In 2022, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, everything happened spontaneously and quite stressfully. In 2023, we prepared and invited three artists from Kharkiv, Dnipro and Kherson to Travneve The residence underwent an energy system upgrade so that the building could cope with any challenges in the realities of blackouts and Russian aggression.
Forced program, continues under missile attacks.
Internal Elements:
Vladyslav Ryaboshtan
(Kyiv/Dnipro) is a visual art artist, his works use such materials as: oil, acrylic, enamel, silkscreen, aerosols, paper, graphite, photography, mixed media. Created a series of works “Metro as shelter, Point of view project”
Mykyta Filonenko
(Kharkiv) – artist, indie developer. Works with survival and retro horror themes. Presented the new project “Sea under the sea under the sea”
Svitlana Volkova
(Kherson) – fashion designer, digital artist, public activist, folklorist. worked on a project called “Liminal”
The result of the program was the "SIDE EFFECTS" Project Authors: Vlad Ryaboshtan, Svitla Volkova, Nikita Filonenko. Curator: Lucy Nychai
What is war for us? Do we speak her language directly or between the lines. When we talk about our life or the life of our cat, we now mean “during the war”. Side effects are an instinctive desire to protect oneself morally in conditions of constant physical threat. The phenomenon of collective experience prompts us to realize that we belong to a common history, despite globalization we separate ourselves through the search for identity, and emotional intelligence makes us skinless and we feel all the pain of humanity more strongly. The language of artistic expressions is speculative dynamics, the latest rituals and documentation of spontaneous traditions.
Vlad Ryaboshtan, an artist from the city of Dnipro, transformed his study of urban industrial spaces, namely the subway, revealing its new purpose and created the series “Metro as a shelter – a point of view.” The underground spaces are filled with temporary housing and sleeping quarters, an expression of my own experience in Kyiv at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Writing his story on large canvases led the author to new experiments. Abstract works broadcast the transition, the search for new spaces for existence.
Svitlana Volkova, an artist from Kherson, continued her research between folkloristics and digital fashion, and immersed herself in the search for new magic to protect Ukrainian identity through collective memory. The author created a three-dimensional digital sculpture in the form of a traditional bear mask from the Malanka Christmas Carnival, filled with content that should be in everyone’s memory and at the same time ward off encroachment on our cultural identity. The project, called Liminal, outlines the threshold that gives us the opportunity to reincarnate in order to undergo initiation into a new state, a new identity, avoiding death. The work is available as an AR mask on the Instagram network for a collective experience.
Mykyta Filonenko, an artist and developer of indie games from Kharkiv, developed a new linear game in his traditional style “The Sea under by the sea under the sea”. Horror about the likely future in the territories from the Black Sea to the Carpathians. The gathering momentum of military conflicts in the world, the delay in the global agreement on the prevention of global warming, the dominance of the language of military power over common sense encourages us to think about the worst scenarios, the probable future – a global flood. The events unfolding in the territories of Ukraine raises the question of the interdependence of countries from global policies, and immersion in game dynamics raises the question of personal responsibility.

Welcome to the VR exhibition here
ABOUT ARTISTS

Mykyta Filonenko
An artist and developer of indie games

Svitlana Volkova
Fashion designer, digital artist, public activist, folklorist

Vladyslav Riaboshtan
MA in studio and monumental painting
Thanks to the Artists at Risk (AR) – UNESCO program for Ukrainian cultural institutions, art centers, municipalities and private artistic initiatives, the Nazarii Voytovych Art Residence joins the international network Artists at Risk (AR) to be able to host Ukrainian artists at risk, who remain in Ukraine, but need a quiet place to restore mental health and artistic practice!