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A studio visit with Tatiana Kochubinskaya, an extraordinary Ukrainian curator currently on a @britishcouncil fellowship in residence at @delfinafdn
I first met Tatiana at Delfina’s recent open house, where she showed artwork alongside her curatorial research. I loved that intermingling of art, curation, convening and production, something I recognise in my own work, and in lineages such as the Artist Placement Group and @eprjcts.
In the studio, we spoke about landscape, memory, scarring and governance. Tatiana has recently been working with the idea of guilty landscapes, a phrase that carries profound weight in relation to eastern Ukraine, where much of her current research is situated. It also resonated deeply with my own interest in the marks left on land by power, extraction, infrastructure and policy.
We spoke about art, policy and government, including my work bringing artists into policy. What might these relations mean across different geographies, from Ukraine to the US to the UK? And how do they shift under different political conditions, including wartime, institutional instability and changing forms of government?
Tatiana’s experience brings a whole new light to my work in this field.
I was especially moved by Tatiana’s work with @antiwarcoalition.art and @zkmkarlsruhe on the Sense of Safety publication.
As always in a studio visit, the conversation found its own unexpected object: a set of delicate cyanotype climate change maps printed on glass, which I produced back in 2017. The process partly failed. The data washed out. The information became barely visible. And somehow, that made them more powerful.
Thank you @kochunia33 for visiting the studio in Walthamstow.
I first met Tatiana at Delfina’s recent open house, where she showed artwork alongside her curatorial research. I loved that intermingling of art, curation, convening and production, something I recognise in my own work, and in lineages such as the Artist Placement Group and @eprjcts.
In the studio, we spoke about landscape, memory, scarring and governance. Tatiana has recently been working with the idea of guilty landscapes, a phrase that carries profound weight in relation to eastern Ukraine, where much of her current research is situated. It also resonated deeply with my own interest in the marks left on land by power, extraction, infrastructure and policy.
We spoke about art, policy and government, including my work bringing artists into policy. What might these relations mean across different geographies, from Ukraine to the US to the UK? And how do they shift under different political conditions, including wartime, institutional instability and changing forms of government?
Tatiana’s experience brings a whole new light to my work in this field.
I was especially moved by Tatiana’s work with @antiwarcoalition.art and @zkmkarlsruhe on the Sense of Safety publication.
As always in a studio visit, the conversation found its own unexpected object: a set of delicate cyanotype climate change maps printed on glass, which I produced back in 2017. The process partly failed. The data washed out. The information became barely visible. And somehow, that made them more powerful.
Thank you @kochunia33 for visiting the studio in Walthamstow.
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