VARVARA UHLIK


SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION:

PLAY GROUND II
(2025)

LYOH
(2025)


PLAY GROUND
(2025)

SWAN

(2024)

DIGITAL (AFTER)

(2023)

PLAYLAND
(2023)



PHOTOGRAPHY:


SUNSHINE, HOW ARE YOU?
(2023-2024)

SLAV GAZE
(2021)



ABOUT

LYOH2025
Lyoh (2025), Detail, Palmer Gallery, London


Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits


My grandmother’s root cellar was lined with shelves of jars filled with pickled fruits and vegetables -a common sight in (post)Soviet Ukraine, where scarcity made preservation a necessity. Drawing on this domestic ritual, the work reflects on the desire to preserve sustenance as well as sentiment. By sealing family photographs from holidays in Crimea and school days in Dnipro together with seasonal vegetables, the piece transforms a familiar act of preservation into a metaphor for memory itself. The jars become vessels of nostalgia and impermanence, embodying the desire to preserve and to savour what will be gone.

Lyoh is the Ukrainian word for Root Cellar



Lyoh (2025), Installation View, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits
Lyoh (2025), Detail, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits


Lyoh (2025), Installation View, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits



Lyoh (2025), Detail, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits


Lyoh (2025), Installation View, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits



Lyoh (2025), Detail, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits




Lyoh (2025), Detail, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits



Lyoh (2025), Installation View, Palmer Gallery,  The Door, London


Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits