SASHA SHEVCHENKO



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With shadows you are as much in control of them as you are not. And two things that were very clear combine to become something completely other. 

But once our eyes have construed pattern, is there really any going back? 

Does it really matter, the name of their owners? 




@lyusterko
2022-23

Something in Everyone


Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto

About
Something in Everyone (2022-2023) is a recurring, site-specific installation in which Shevchenko’s material investigations work toward a floating visual metaphor. Repurposed bottles are dressed with linen and are staged differently each time, allowing the work to fade in and out of contact with global concerns. More recently, the bottles have drawn a formal resemblance to Molotov cocktails, a symbol of Ukrainian resistance and resilience, casting it with a political valence in light of the intensification of the Ukranian-Russian war in 2022. 

The bottles’ frenzied display on the floor incites a feeling of disturbance and anguish, but their grouping also carries a sense of communion and vitality.  - Danica Pinteric (read essay here)

Made with hand-dyed linen, printed canvas, glass, vinyl appliqué, and charcoal. Installation dimensions vary.