Viktoriia Rozentsveih’s solo exhibition explores the processual nature of memory and its transformation. In the works presented, the artist refers to her own photographic archives as well as visual materials from the Kherson region, where she is from, transforming them into multilayered images that exist in an intermediate state. “Archivality” becomes a defining characteristic of the exhibition, as the artist engages with the form, essence, or meaning of the archive in various ways—both personal and formal.

Rozentsveih has long been working with themes of memory. In her recent works, the focus shifts from attempts to preserve and fix memory to an acknowledgment of its instability, forgetfulness, and erasure. Central to this is the idea of “being in between”: where the past becomes fragmented and the future remains uncertain; where memory transforms into a conditional refuge, yet simultaneously drifts away. The exhibition addresses the sense of not belonging to any space—neither past nor present, neither home nor a new place in exile.

Memory is presented here as unstable and mutable—a dynamic and fragile process. In her works, the artist not only attempts to “preserve” her own experience but also highlights its impossibility: any attempt at reconstruction proves incomplete, fragmented, and altered by time, distance, or chance. She refers to this phenomenon and its processes as “imitation.”