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
2023

For Every Seed Not Planted,


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IC Contemporary, Toronto

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For every seed not planted,

                                                  The other finds a way,

                                                                                                     To call on what could be so.

Flickering traces of Ukrainian visual traditions settle in between the industrial and elemental. House common buckwheat seeds, never to be cooked, are arranged against blurred portraits, or tug instinctually towards a reflective water surface that begins to take the form of decorative motifs from the past. These are meditations on seeds never sprouted, and those yearning to do so. Shifting red textiles mark a charged ground, caught between gleaming tracks of vehicles that never collided, marking a moment of the almost-meeting.

This series signals a choice to stand and acknowledge that which was left behind or in-between, that which is ancestral but feels like an apparition, and the heritage that makes itself known even through vastly different surroundings.

This acknowledgement allows for the diasporic shifting of place to become a resource.

For every part that is left behind, another gets to be created.


For Every Seed Not Planted, 2023, buckwheat seed appliqué on archival print, 27.5” x 36”


To Call On What Could Be So, 2023, hand-dyed linen, glass, chrome vinyl, dimensions of installation vary.