LADA NAKONECHNA – performance “While I can see”

3.08.2012 at 21.00
square at 2 Legionowa St. in Białystok

Lada Nakonechna (1981, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)

Lada Nakonechna (1981, Dnipropetrovsk) takes up drawing and actions in public space as well as she is an author of installations, films and performaces. She is a co-founder of the curatorial collective Hudrada and member of the collective R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space). She’s a finalist of the Pinchuk Art Prize for young Ukrainian artists in 2009 and 2011 and a finalist of the Malevich Prize in 2008.
Lives and works in Kiev.

Spanning her artistic practice is a reflection on the distribution of means and the domination of the homo economicus model. Within the frames of a project “Cards” (2011) presented at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw she presented a series of strikingly similar kitschy landscape drawings realized in Ukraine and Switzerland. Simultaneously, she compared the value of human work, and thus of the given work of art according to the average hourly rate in both countries. “Monument for 2” (2011) is a minimalist object resembling two tomb stalls leaning against each other and offering two laconic epitaphs. The artist’s political minimalism doesn’t lead to optimistic conclusions – the economics influences not only life, but also death.

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