WHERE WE ARE NOT  (in progress)

Water dissolves memories, water makes real events fictitious elements, and over time our memories dissipate like this water behind us.
 

Where We Are Not is a project that explores how migration shapes the experience of multiple generations. The work is based on a family archive that traces my family's journey through several generations of emigration, starting with my grandfather's story of emigration from Ukraine to Canada in the 1990s, my mother's story of emigration to Italy in 2008, and my own experience of fleeing war since 2022 due to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Through alternative printing techniques, I reinterpret archival images, questioning the way in which histories are remembered and transmitted.

 

​The project asks the question: can these stories bring separated generations, distant places, distant times, and ultimately each other closer? How does this experience influence the formation of personal and collective memory? How do we remember? How do we preserve stories, passing them down from generation to generation?

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The project allows us to look at the archive not as a fixed set of facts, but as a dynamic environment where the personal is intertwined with the collective, and memory with an artistic gesture.

З великою любовʼю до тебе, Бодя! Твоя Нененька.

With great love to you, Bodia! Your Nenenka.

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