Dariia Kuzmych

The installation consists of large-scale ink drawings, interwoven into an ephemeral construction. Lines interfere with shapeless forms, from time to time changing their accuracy, or simply following the chaos of ink pigment diffusing in water. These diagrammatic drawings follow and combine some of the qualities of time, in both the way people experience it and in the way they are expressed in languages — time flies, flows, stays still. It melts away, it expands and contracts, it can be overwhelming, it can be distressing. In some moments or longer periods you are confronted with time through your body.

The environment, formed by drawings and its supportive construction, follows the intangible character of time. Its linearity, so useful for orientation, is shaken, torn, or melted, so that individuals may feel crushed or dissolved. The elements of the construction support each other in their different qualities — steel cannot stand without fragile acrylic. Tattered time flows through the gaze — maybe we are inside the body tissue that has been torn, the fragments spread over the surfaces. The rolls of drawings are like a film that a viewer can see at once. An image of time emerges, slipping away from the moment which is framed by the construction.

Acknowledgements to brother Ilya Kuzmych and father Serhiy Kuzmych, who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and other defenders of Ukraine. And also Stefan Weber, Elisabeth Weber, Stefan Lettner, Alexander Heinich.