- Main
- Artists' works
- Anxiety state
Zhurunova Marharyta, Lokatyr Bohdan
We all share a feeling of anxiety. Nothing is certain, the sense of security is lost. Safe places have disappeared; anything can be perceived as a danger, even the most familiar, everyday things. There is no threat, so why is the heart pounding anyway?
Once comfortable spaces sprout thorns. Where do they sprout from, and to whom are they directed? Do they protect or hurt? Vibrating, tense – an anxious state. This idea arose in the process of thinking about how our land art work “Anxious State” can be transferred to the gallery, adapted, without changing the meaning.
We have been working on the problem of representation of land art/environmental art works in the gallery space for a long time. Such projects are inseparable from the natural space, and printed photo documentation is, in our opinion, too boring a method, so every time we try new ways.
Zhurunova Marharyta, Lokatyr Bohdan
The creative association has existed since 2015, from the first joint project created at the Mythogenesis winter land art festival. Both participants, Marharyta Zhurunova from Vinnytsia (29.11.1994) and Bohdan Lokatyr from Lviv (04.05.1993), studied together at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Department of Book and Easel Graphics and graduated in 2018 with a master’s degree. Prior to that, Bohdan Lokatyr also studied at the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts, majoring in artistic ceramics.
The main activities of the group are environmental art and land art. The main themes are the interaction between humans and the landscape around them. Of course, after 24.02.2022, most of the works created are on the theme of war.
Also in 2019, both artists were awarded scholarships from the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists, and received a grant from the President of Ukraine to create the second volume of the art book “Ukrainian Bestiary”.
Finalists of the Nathan Altman Contemporary Art Competition (Vinnytsia, 2018), the Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2020).
Selected exhibitions:
“A4, BALLPOINT (Kyiv, Karas Gallery, 2015-2018).
The exhibition project of the curatorial group of Konstantin Zorkin “Borderland Space” (Kyiv, CCA “Sowart, 2018)
“Bigger Space”, (Kharkiv, Yermilov Center, 2019)
First All-Ukrainian Biennial of Levkas (White Light Gallery, Kyiv, 2019-20) + “Levkas Miniatures”
Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019)
“Observation” (White Light Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
“The Form of Space” (Port.agency and LCD ‘044’, 2020)
M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Lacuna Festivals 2021 International Contemporary Art Festival ‘Distance’ (Canary Islands, 2021)
Mykolaiv ART Week: CONNECT! (Mykolaiv, 2021)
Exhibition based on the results of the ART Kuzemyn residency (Semyradskyi Gallery, Kharkiv, 2021)
“Time of War. Reflections” (Dzyga, Lviv, 2022)
“Invasion. Before and after” (Wroclaw-Krakow, Poland, 2022-23)
Kunstausstellung // pARTner residence (Feldkirch, Austria, 2022)
Art of resistance (University of Valencia, Spain, 2022)
(Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Vilafames, Spain, 2023)
“Indicators (Dzyga, Lviv, 2023)
Inner Landscapes, (ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023)
Day after Day, (atelier19, Paderborn, Germany, 2023)
Print exhibitions:
International exhibition of small graphic forms “Graphics MINI SPACE” (Lviv, 2015)
“ESTAMP’15” (Lviv, 2015)
Exhibition of student works “Graphics. Progress of the young” (Lviv, 2015)
“BREST PRINT TRIENNIAL” (Belarus, Brest, 2015)
“VII BIENNAL INTERNATIONAL D’EX-LIBRIS CONTRATALLA-2015” (Spain, Terragona, 2015)
“Małe Triennale Grafiki Myślenice 2015” (Poland, Myślenice, 2015)
“International Biennial of Graphic Arts “Leopolis” 2016 (Lviv, 2016)
“Bucharest International Print Biennale (Romania, Bucharest, 2017)
XVII International Contest of Small Graphics and Exlibris Ostrów Wielkopolski (Poland, Ostrów Wielkopolski, 2019, 2022)
20th International Print Biennale Varna (Bulgaria, Varna, 2019)
the 17th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, (Poland, Lodz, 2020)
