VARVARA UHLIK

SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION:

PLAY GROUND II
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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 II

2025

Play Ground II (2025), Installation view, The Sunday Painter, London

Two steel sculptures, water, black dye

Play Ground II expands on my installation Play Ground, revisiting the Soviet-era architecture of my childhood. Steel sculptures - a swing and a seesaw are reconstructed from memory, based on the standardised playgrounds once common across Ukraine and the former USSR. Suspended in stillness, the playground equipment becomes ghostly—neither functional nor fully abandoned, caught between use and obsolescence.

Play Ground II (2025), Installation view, The Sunday Painter, London

Two steel sculptures, water, black dye

Play Ground II (2025), Installation view (detail), The Sunday Painter, London

Steel, water, black dye

Play Ground II (2025), Installation view, The Sunday Painter, London

Steel sculptures, water, black dye