Taras Kamennoi

The work Ethical Spot harkens back to the “exhibition” the artist organized at the construction site he worked at outside his hours. The construction crew became the exhibition’s first viewers. The artist was tasked with clearing construction waste from the territory temporarily provided by the site’s neighbors free of charge. Kamennoi dug up the plot, making manifest the real and previously invisible borders of the adjacent territories. The outlines of the freshly dug up earth created a new plot as a metaphor of the “new” no man’s land.

In his work for the PinchukArtCentre, Kamennoi created a monumental installation that recreated the shape of that territory. The exposition also features the artist’s drawings of his quotidian asocial life at the construction site, its blueprints and photo documentation.

Kamennoi’s gesture at the construction site, which pays lip service to one citizen’s respect for the other, and the present installation allow the artist to deliberate the concept of territorial integrity.