Project abou war in Ukraine 'Homin'
Ria Keburia Fondation (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022)
The project by Fedora Akimova talks about the war through the themes of memory, loss of home and the unification of experience through death: both physically and metaphorically. The land-art object "Chapel", created from elements (or fragments) of furniture refers to the famous photograph of a kitchen cabinet that miraculously survived on the wall of a house destroyed by a Russian bomb in Borodyanka. The artist collects wooden furniture pieces in the form of a chapel facade and creates an object that is both a monument to the architecture of destruction and to what goes beyond this destruction .
Curator Masha Kriuchkova
In the space of the gallery Fedora builds a pattern of triangles , similar to a simplest model of a "house", as if extending beyond the premises. It’s rhythmic refers to documentary photographs of numerous military graves. Graves dug out at the same time, in a hurry, form a terrifying pattern which seems to unify the experience of death. Glass objects are readymades, dishes that were once possessed by civilians from a village near Irpin. Transformed by the war, melted down by explosions, deprived of their functions and their familiar look, these objects refer to the personal history and destinies of those people, for whom universal places of burial have forever become their homes.
In the small hall, Fedora focuses on the problem of post-traumatic memory. This phenomenon is characterized by forgetting or loss of random episodes of events or a time period. Similarly, the artist's exposition is scattered and fragmented. Fedora recreates these flashbacks that tell out about the loss, and the icon cases, referring to the traditional icon form, become portals that indicate the gap between god and man in the context of the war.
Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist specializing in installations, video and objects. She was born in 1987 in Kyiv, where, after receiving her first degree in Printing and graphics, she began her creative career as an illustrator. In 2010 she moved to Russia – first to Kaliningrad, then to St. Petersburg, where she studied decoration and staging. This diploma in Theater Decoration and Stage design has impacted and developed her as a future artist, as she picked up many techniques and crafts into her art.
Land-art object
Ready mades
Black room
Sound-Installation Homin
