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)
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)
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
Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film print, glass jar, vegetables and fruits
Polaroid integral film prints, glass jars, vegetables and fruits