Polina Shcherbyna, Svitlana Ahranovska

Breach is a gap in time; on the one hand, it is a pause, an abrupt stop in growth and development, after which it is sometimes possible to resume, but in a different, altered form. At the same time, breach is a trauma that our ancestors had to go through, and we are going through it today.

Polina Shcherbyna and Svitlana Agranovska started a dialogue with wartime, mostly using the image of a tree, later adding other transformations of the physical and spiritual, which can be traced in the image of dead birds, scattered stones, a cocoon.

These images are an opportunity to speak frankly about the body, its wounds, vulnerability and pain. The body that contains the fragility of the world and at the same time the hope for healing.

Especially now, the body seems fragile and unprotected in the face of the merciless machine of war that cuts down everything around.

But “the broken branch grows back again”, and these reflections are connected with the hope of healing the living wound of humanity, which is still growing into a bottomless gap between our past and future.

“The lightest realm of relationship with the divine somehow depends on the darkest realm that separates us from the animal,” Agamben says. In this project, healing is compared to rebirth or even resurrection itself, which is an image of suffering and faith in light in the darkest of times.