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Bohdan Lokatyr
This is a series of works about places that are deeply important to me but are now out of reach.
The primary medium is wax and paraffin. Their physical properties emphasize a sense of fluidity, fragility, and the impossibility of preserving memories in sharp detail. The smell of these materials also plays an important role, as it transports me back to childhood.
Many of my recent works depict the quarry in the village of Mohrytsia, in the Sumy region, where the land art symposium Borderland Space was held. This place is significant both to me personally and to the Ukrainian land art community as a whole. Due to the war, the symposium can no longer take place there at the moment.
Bohdan Lokatyr is an artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. He was born in Dnipro. In his artistic practice, he often works with materials found in nature, using their physical properties as an expressive element in his works. Recently, he has frequently worked with wax and paraffin.
Since 2015, he has collaborated with Marharyta Zhurunova, working together in the fields of environmental art, land art, and site-specific art.
In 2019, both artists were awarded the President of Ukraine Scholarship for Young Writers and Artists and also received a Presidential grant. Together they have participated in the Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), the M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020), and the Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, 2023).
