Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Veronika Bondarenko
Installation View: Vessel and Rivulet
Installation
2026
Installation documentation; oil paintings on canvas, wall, light, and spatial arrangement
Variable / site-specific installation
A final critique installation pairing bodily density with atmospheric dissolution under neutral light.
“This installation view places Vessel and Rivulet in tension across the room. Vessel meets the viewer with weight, diagonal force, and internal density, while Rivulet opens through veiling, reflection, and bodily atmosphere. Installed under brighter neutral light, the works had to carry their own colour, surface, and structure without the mediation of coloured lamps. The pairing clarifies two different forms of threshold: one compressed and generative, the other fluid and dissolving.”
Work by
Veronika Bondarenko
Drawing and Painting
“I make paintings for the moment before recognition, when form is felt before it is fixed. In oil, images gather through glazing, abrasion, concealment, and revision, holding shells, seeds, vessels,...” [More]
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