VARVARA UHLIK

SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION:

PLAY GROUND II
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LYOH
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PLAY GROUND
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SWAN
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DIGITAL (AFTER)
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PLAYLAND
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PHOTOGRAPHY:

SUNSHINE, HOW ARE YOU?
^(2023-2024)
SLAV GAZE
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PLAY GROUND

2025

Play Ground (2025)

Three steel sculptures, water, black dye

This installation revisits the architecture of my post-Soviet childhood. Three metal sculptures - a swing, a slide, and a rocket are reconstructed from memory, based on the standardised playgrounds that can be found across Ukraine and the former USSR.

Installed on the second floor of a 19th-century building, the room was temporarily flooded with black water, transforming the playground into a hauntingly infinite landscape.

Play Ground - Rocket (2025)

Steel, water, black dye

Play Ground - Swing (2025)

Steel, water, black dye

Play Ground - Swing (2025)

Steel, water, black dye

Play Ground - Slide (2025)

Steel, water, black dye

INSTALLATION

SCULPTURES

Slide (2025)

Steel

Slide, detail (2025)

Steel

Swing (2025)

Steel

Swing, detail (2025)

Steel

Rocket (2025)

Steel

Rocket, detail (2025)

Steel