My kiosks
2 objects, 3 curtains, zine, 2023
The project consists of two objects, two videos, three curtains, and an installation, and is based on 26 images of kiosks from Nova Kakhovka and Kyiv. Here, the author explores and examines the understanding of ‘home’ using recognisable small architectural forms - kiosks - as the object of her research. By depicting the kiosks of Kyiv and Nova Kakhovka, she highlights both the forms that are characteristic of each city and their generalised forms. The project is based on comparisons and contrasts, and the idea that all objects are the same and different at the same time, distinguished by personal experiences, and united by their form, runs through the project.
This project is also a study of the peculiarities of public space through such small architectural forms that are inherent in different cities of Ukraine and the post-Soviet space.
Three curtains have sewn pieces of fabric with printed kiosks on them, where the outer curtains have 8 each (on the left from Nova Kakhovka, on the right from Kyiv), and in the middle - 10 kiosks. This way, these objects flow from one city to another, and in the middle they are combined and intertwined. The curtain format was not chosen by chance - it is a way to protect oneself, an association with home and a safe place, which is what the author is thinking about in the project.
Kiosk1 is a generalised model of a kiosk printed on a 3D printer, and Kiosk2 is the same model made of wire. These objects are generalised models of kiosks, one of which is an imperfect linear form that lacks materiality, and the other is perfect and tangible. They are also a contrast and a comparison, although they can simultaneously be parts of the same subject. In these objects, the author analyses the very concept of the kiosk and its attractiveness, why they attract attention and make the post-Soviet space what it is and what can be called ‘home’ and ‘familiar’.
A zine catalogue with all the images of kiosks and the captions associated with each of them.