Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Veronika Bondarenko
Installation View: Mutual Reception and Fern Flower
Installation
2025
Installation documentation; oil paintings on canvas, wall, light, and spatial arrangement
Variable / site-specific installation
An installation pairing a large relational field with a smaller atmospheric diptych, placing cosmology and longing side by side.
“This installation view brings Mutual Reception and Fern Flower into direct conversation. Mutual Reception expands outward through pattern, radiating structure, and distributed force, while Fern Flower gathers inward through atmosphere, veiling, and partial emergence. Seen together, the works clarify the 2025 foundation of Threshold: abstraction as a way of organizing relation, myth, memory, and unstable vision. The pairing moves between scale and intimacy, system and secrecy, cosmic field and hidden flower.”
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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