THE WAY FROM EYE TO EYE, 2020

Installation, paper and wooden objects, found object, painting, text
Project for ‘Exhibition of the 20 Artists Shortlisted for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020’ Kyiv
February 9, 2020 — January 3, 2021
curated by Alexandra Tryanova and Bjorn Geldhof

The forms, transparencies and veilings yield to the imagination. Their extreme equilibrium leads us to places where our minds are soothed and comforted.

‘My eye moves slowly. It touches a vague surface hoping to see the whole space. It traces the ambiguity that I desired to return to the image.
It is only the ambiguity that can make it live.
Once walking through a bustling southern city, I saw the paly flickering of crystal curtains wavering in a wind. The cavernous structure of the
folds made a sharp impression on me. They lacked the unnecessary accuracy of a perpendicular shape. Irrational space, infinite fluidity. I wanted to rip the curtain off, allowing the sunbeam to penetrate into the room and fill it with the bright glow – I wanted to let the external inside, as if with x-rays — thereby connecting the interior of the building with the street’..

[Author’s text]

The central subject of Alexandra Kadzevich’s practice is painting. After completing classic art education, she consistently employs painting techniques and tests various materials to explore this medium. In 2018, in her workshop in Odessa, Kadzevich founded the artist-run space
NOCH, which promoted the development of the art environment. Changes in the private space of her workshop have affected the artist’s practice and inspired her to reconceptualize the relations between a work of art, space and architecture — her thinking transformed in the direction of spatially-oriented painting, where the materiality of an object has become crucial, while painting itself has developed ephemerality which is characteristic of an intuitive touch.

[Extract of curator’s text]

 http://new.pinchukartcentre.org/pac-prize-2020-shorlist-en