Nadiya Svirsky

Relic Ascending

Mixed Media
2021
Mezzotint Etchings Cast in Plaster
approx. 16x8x0.5”
The abandoned soviet-era restaurant gets reinvented as the superstructure in the personal mythology of my rememberings.

“A mezzotint is a delicate impression. An increasingly mythologized building goes through stability, erasure, decay and re-assemblage, emerging more precious, precarious and haunting than before.”

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Relic Ascending
Relic Ascending

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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]