The work was created in 2020, during the artist’s residency in Poznań. As such, it corresponds with the principles of the Arsenal Municipal Gallery’s Collection, which focuses on artists and artworks related to the city’s widely defined artistic scene, the urban context of Poznań, and the gallery itself.
Package is the culmination of the artist’s work with the monument dedicated to the Victims of June 1956, from which images have been retrieved using the frottage technique. In her works, Nakonechna explicitly aligns herself with the political and ideological heritage of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and the Maidan. The Poznań monument paying homage to June 1956 aroused her interest because of the striking similarity between two distinct social revolts against totalitarian power.
Photo: EIGEN+ART Gallery, Berlin
O artystce
Lada Nakonechna, born 1981 in Dnipropetrovsk, creates drawings, actions in public space, installations, films, and performances. She configures her multipart installations and objects in a particular way in order to draw together the entire exhibition space, including the audience. The artist is interested in the structure of social relations, the interplay between performing and viewing, and the perception and role of art. She is a finalist of the 2009 Pinchuk Art Prize competition for young Ukrainian artists and winner of the Kazimir Malevich Prize (2014). As part of this award, she was invited to a residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, both individually and together with the group R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space, since 2004). In 2011, she carried out a project in Leipzig’s public space: a wall drawing in the Albertina University Library. In 2012, during a residency, she produced a solo exhibition Everyday Days at Warsaw’s Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art’s Project Room as part of the project TRANSFER: Polish-Ukrainian exchange in collaboration with the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv.
