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- In Encounter with B.H. (Black Holes)
Chechushkova Dasha
A plaster frame animation — a fairy tale about how the street began to fall ill with black holes. People who encountered them changed irreversibly (mutated, got sick). One of the most dangerous effects of living next to a hole was the disappearance of people, which happened more and more often.
These are encounters with the unknown, the unclear, the unspoken, the unarticulated — with the emptiness that demands to be filled.
It is about the disappeared, the taken, those who never returned, those who are escaping — “the missing” (as Marharyta Polovinko says), “the beaten people” (as Dana Kavelina says) — a story that emerged after (and about) forced mobilization.
About “fortune’s mistress who makes you collapse from her kiss on the lips” (as Illia Todurkin says).
Born in 1999 in Odesa, Dasha graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art School in 2018, Department of Painting. She then pursued her studies at the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, initially in the Department of Graphic Arts before transferring to the Faculty of Theory and History of Art from 2019 to 2023.
In her artistic practice, Dasha works with total installations, creating a “situation” that she terms as “co-existence” and “co-event”, using various media, where her diary-notebook appears as the central element.
From 2020 to 2022, she was an active member and co-founder of a creative community at OSRZ-2, an abandoned ship repair factory in Odesa. This period significantly influenced her and developed the artistic theme of situational, fragile art in the context of “co-existence” with another.
