DANIIL GALKIN – Nothing Common Nothing Personal – installation in public space

Daniil Galkin’s art installation Nothing common, nothing personal presented in the public space is composed of objects that resemble stretchers to move wounded. By changing the colour into red of the used canvas and placing the letters of the slogan on it, the artist provides the work with another meaning – a banner. Both objects in the context of Maidan, and more importantly of war in Ukraine, seem to be very symbolic. For taking a stand against or making a decision to join a protest, the one needs to pay the “blood price”. Ukraine is now like an oozing wound, where the boundary between public and personal is very blurred.

Daniil Galkin
Born in 1985, in Dnipropetrovsk. He studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Theatre College. In 2009 he began work on pilot project as part of the art group “2222”, which consists of alter-personalities of a single author (himself). He lives in Dnipropetrovsk.

Webpage: http://issuu.com/search?q=daniilgalkin

Selected exhibitions:
2010 – Participant of the Landart Festival “Khortytsia-Vyrva”, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine;
2010 – Participant of the Week of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine;
2009 – “Submersion into black and white space”, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine;
2008 – Participant of the Landart Festival “Khortytsia – Three masts or the sun rises 2 minutes earlier”, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine;2007 – “Submersion into summer” Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine;
2007 – “Variety show” Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.