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.

Painting

Between Here and Then

A portal to somewhere else that may or may not remain.

Echo Over Echo

The images of stairwells and tunnels repeat and echo over each other.

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.

Painting

Like a Phantom Limb

Preserving something. An empty space, filled with past life.

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.

Painting

The Superstructure

A precursor to the painting 'A Defunct Structure is a moving Anchor'.

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]

Artwork Collection

REBUILDING THE MEMORY SPACE

REBUILDING THE MEMORY SPACE is the title of Nadiya Svirsky's thesis: a cross-disciplinary body of work exploring the malleable nature of episodic memory.

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.

Between Here and Then

A portal to somewhere else that may or may not remain.

Echo Over Echo

The images of stairwells and tunnels repeat and echo over each other.

Interstitial Pathmaking

When the tunnels and hallways and stairwells all start to overlap, and the reference is no longer rooted in reality.

Interstitial Pathmaking (Reprise)

I've been to this place before, and I'll be here again before long.

Like a Phantom Limb

Preserving something. An empty space, filled with past life.

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

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

Relic Ascending

The abandoned soviet-era restaurant gets reinvented as the superstructure in the personal mythology of my rememberings.

The Superstructure

A precursor to the painting 'A Defunct Structure is a moving Anchor'.

Work by

Nadiya Svirsky

“ 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]