The main intrigue was that the "beautiful space" chosen for the work had long been stubbornly held in two realities at once. On the one hand, it was constantly being developed as a southern resort with a standard set of seaside holiday attributes. At the same time, this space has miraculously retained the fragile ghostly charm of another reality that resists being forced into becoming just another tourist route.

Distancing ourselves from both realities, we built our own parallel route, balancing between the aggression of the fairground and the nostalgia for the beauty that is slipping away. 

«Heat» became a kind of skin - a living, thin, sensitive as well as vulnerable two-sided surface that comes into contact with both spaces. The project is a blade stuck between two existences, constantly cutting, stinging, dividing.

Beach

Installation from the Heat project (with Vlada Ralko)
(composite aluminum)

The Heat project was provoked by the call of the place, when the Crimean settlement, remote from the capital's audience, not only inspired but also directly attracted the work. The work on the objects continued in Gurzuf. At first, the objects were planned to be implanted into the body of the space where they were created, wrapping them in the aura of the place. Next, we were going to move the project forward, recreating it in new conditions.

«Heat» became a kind of skin - a living, thin, sensitive as well as vulnerable two-sided surface that comes into contact with both spaces. The project is a blade stuck between two existences, constantly cutting, stinging, dividing.

(Vlada Ralko)