Transfer without blurring is impossible

installation, fabric, thread, 240x210 cm, 60x210 cm, 2025 

This large-scale transfer of photographs onto fabric, using 80 sheets of A4 paper, creates a visual map of blurred memory and loss. The image combines two landscapes: the shore of the village of Vesele on the liberated yet nearly destroyed bank of Kherson region, and the sky above Nova Kakhovka, which no longer belongs to its city. Here, the landscape has lost its point of reference, turning into a memory of a place that no longer exists.
In this work, transfer is both a physical and symbolic process, reflecting migration, displacement, and the artist’s inner state. The spreading of ink during printing is a random element, an inevitable stage that visualizes the erasure of memory.
The piece engages with the interplay of scale and detail: enlarging the image is an attempt to grasp memory, while the blurriness emphasizes its fluidity. A concrete image transforms into a ghostly trace—just like memories themselves. Just as it is impossible to return to a place and a city that are now inaccessible, each blurring here becomes a step toward inevitable dissolution, and at the same time, toward acceptance.


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