Vitalii Kokhan

Vitaliy Kohan’s art practice is recognizable in its poetics, a haptic quality and attention to materials as both the subject of his works, and their expressive means. The artist explores how an image turns into expression, and vice versa, when a random object gains expressive properties. Kohan subjects the items featured in the exposition to his “para-scientific” experiments evocative of experiments in physics classes. These objects document the “behavior” of elemental natural processes. Large-scope compositions that demonstrate the influence of light, fire and water coexist with real-time video projection of a crystal growing. This draws our attention to fluidity, impossibility of cohesive perception, and manifestations of the intangible.