Painting
A Defunct Structure Is A Moving Anchor
A painting of the abandoned and defunct Soviet-era restaurant called Маяк (Mayak/The Lighthouse) in my hometown of Dnipro, Ukraine.
Mixed Media
Interstitial Pathmaking
When the tunnels and hallways and stairwells all start to overlap, and the reference is no longer rooted in reality.
Mixed Media
Interstitial Pathmaking (Reprise)
I've been to this place before, and I'll be here again before long.
Installation
REBUILDING THE MEMORY SPACE
REBUILDING THE MEMORY SITE is the title of Nadiya Svirsky's thesis: a cross-disciplinary body of work, pictured here in an imagined digital installation in lieu of a physical exhibition. Works are shown approximately true to scale relative to... More
Essay
ReBUILDING THE MEMORY SPACE - Exhibition Text
Contents: 1. When I Say Memory Space... 2. Remembering is Preserving, Destroying, Rewriting 3. Superstructures and Anchors 4. Tunnels, Stairwells, Portals 5. From Empty Ruins, A Myth, or, Why I Make What I Make
Mixed Media
Relic Ascending
The abandoned soviet-era restaurant gets reinvented as the superstructure in the personal mythology of my rememberings.
Work by
Nadiya Svirsky
Printmaking & Painting
“ I visualise episodic memory as an interstitial realm between our physical reality, our experiences and our sense of self. I have come to consider memory as a vast phenomenon that becomes a place,...” [More]