A scene from a performance Crumpled Memory in a gallery space: four performers dressed in black move forward in sync across the glossy floor, each to their own rhythm
A performer from Crumpled Memory stands with their back to the camera, facing a translucent curtain onto which glowing white text is projected.
Five performers from performance Crumpled Memory work in synchrony in a choreographed sequence of movements in the gallery space. Their mirrored poses create a visual rhythm against the backdrop of photographs and monochrome artworks.
The performers in Crumpled Memory, dressed in black, stand with their arms outstretched in the dimly lit gallery space, facing translucent screens onto which abstract visual effects and a monochrome face are projected.
Three performers dressed in black stand in profile as part of a choreographed sequence. Behind them, a vivid red and blue abstract projection casts mirrored, glyph-like shapes onto a translucent screen, adding a sense of rhythm and urgency to the spatial composition in performance Crumpled Memory

Hlib Zelhin
Crumpled memory

Kyiv
Dance
2022
Creation year:
2022
Presentation place:
Kyiv
Duration:
30 minutes
Video documentation:

not available

Project team:

Author of the idea Hlib Zelhin

Performers Oleksandra Vershinina, Mariia Dzhan, Mariia Karnaukh, Mariia Shelepalo 

Visual elements, scenography Lina-Mariia Shlapak 

Words Kateryna Prokopova 

Sound Yasia Sayenko, Daryna Voytenko, Denys Petryshen, Oleksa Meleshko

About the project

“Crumpled memory” by Hlib Zelhin

The experience of the 2022 war will become the foundation of our future. But the answers to the questions of the present should be sought in our past. Memory is a look back with many eyes. But seeing and remembering are different things. How to remember so that the future does not become like the past?

The project “Crumpled Memory” took place in collaboration with the project MARIYA by the Canadian artist of Ukrainian origin Lesia Maruschak. The premiere performance was shown among the exposition of the MARIYA project, which is recognized by the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv as the most famous exhibition about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

About the author

The artistic association MŌN (Lina-Mariia Shlapak and Kateryna Prokopova) was formed in February 2020. MŌN’s activity consists of three directions: artistic, educational, and organizational-cultural. MŌN’s projects are created based on the interaction of three communication methods: word, movement, and visual image.

Presentations
  • The presentation took place on December 30, 2022, at the KC “Gallery XXI” in Vinnytsia.
Credits

Production proto produkciia
Lead producer Olga Diatel
Executive producer Volodymyr Burkovets
Associate Producer Yuliia Parysh
Communication Olga Diatel
Design of posters Yaroslava Kovalchuk
Photo Dmytro Thomson
Financial management Volodymyr Burkovets, Olena Serbuk

Supported by

The work was implemented by proto produkciia foundation and funded by the Stabilization Fund for Culture and Education 2022 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut.

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