Wings (Heat project, together with Vlada Ralko), 2010 – 2020
Installation in six parts, iron, light

Budnikov constructs his own provisional wings as a living form dependent on nothing but the arbitrary movement of the artist’s hand (the heavy iron Wings from the Heat project of 2010 come to mind).

Much like in the Brechtian comparison of a trembling human hand to the trembling hand of a compass, Budnikov tracks the direction of thought with a high degree of precision, and uncovers it in each case at an unexpected and unpredictable phase. (Vlada Ralko, The Optics of Flight, 2018)