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Veronika Synenka
72 Shots is a project consisting of a 7.2-meter-long scanned film strip, exhibited twice: in Kyiv (Ukraine) and Vilnius (Lithuania).
The first exhibition in Kyiv captured everyday life and domestic scenes of the city she calls her first home. Later, the same film was re-photographed in Vilnius, documenting a different, parallel, and contrasting daily life.
The double exposure blurs the boundary between these two spaces, merging them into a single visual sequence. 36 superimposed frames serve as a metaphor for the concept of a border—not only a geopolitical line but also a personal and emotional threshold. The project explores fragments of life that are interrupted yet remain vividly present.
The title adds an additional layer of meaning: in English, the word shot refers both to a photographic frame and a gunshot. This wordplay strengthens the project’s connection to themes of memory, loss, and existential tension.
Veronika Synenka (b. 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Vilnius. Her practice emerges from lived experience and is shaped by migration, memory, and loss. She works across multiple media—from painting and text to installations and readymades.
For Veronika, art is the most refined means of resisting entropy. She often describes herself as a “professional escapist”, someone who uses art not merely to represent reality, but to dance with it and preserve meaning in an ever-changing world.
Play is a central part of her process. She seeks the pleasure of play in her work—whether through wordplay, conceptual layers, or visual elements such as contrasts, silhouettes, and colors (or their absence). A key theme in her current practice is the boundary between “before” and “after”, not just a geographical border but a threshold in time that transforms everything. This concept underpins her recent works.
Veronika actively participates in group exhibitions and artistic projects, and has held solo exhibitions in Ukraine and Lithuania. Her works are personal, indirect, and intimate, serving as a method to document transformation and slowly reconstruct herself without fully explaining it in words.