Ielyzaveta
Okhrimchuk

Projects

Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk – Marevo

FINE ARTS

Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk – Marevo

by Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk

Marevo is a phenomenon in which the air appears to shimmer or dissolve, making perception unstable. In Ukrainian, the word also designates a state of in-between. This is precisely what this project explores: a series of photographs made during the artist's return to Kyiv, their hometown, in March 2026, which documents how people live in a state of permanent suspension — between destruction and daily life, between before and after, between knowing and not knowing. The installation presents two scales of images: smaller photographs showing traces of war, larger ones illustrating how life continues alongside it. Not as opposites, but as two simultaneous realities.

SLAP !

FINE ARTS

SLAP !

with Geoffrey Cottenceau, Gina Proenza

Whether it’s a parade, a particle accelerator or a dance ball, SLAP invites you to inhabit a space from a gravitational perspective. Positioned on the boundary between two and three dimensions, the works are subject to centrifugal laws and find themselves exchanging with one another to create fortuitous narratives, as if the continuous round of which they were a part of had suddenly come to a halt. The exhibition space becomes the site of a fundamentally social event - in terms of the works it hosts and the exhibition context - and reveals the social perspective that the works hold in rela- tion to each other. Like a boring chat with a friend of a friend, some pieces are overwhelmed by their conversations, while others lend themselves easily to them. You’ll have no hesitation in intercepting some of the phrases exchanged between the works, while having the opportunity to: reply/nego- tiate/argue with the social time-space that SLAP, as a real static meeting point, offers for an evening.