The Naked Room presents the first solo show by Oleksandra Kadzevych in Kyiv. She is an artist, this year’s nominee for PinchukArtPrize, and the curator of Noch—one of the most interesting art spaces in Odessa.
The exhibition features her latest works that balance between painting, collage and sculpture. Curators Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko selected highlights from the artist’s studio that reveal a moment of transition in Oleksandra’s practice—from painting to objecthood, from narration to abstraction and from mastering a medium to mastering a space.
“I was asked recently if painting is just a medium for me or if I am researching it. If I use it as a skill or study its possibilities. I guess it’s both,” Oleksandra tells in her interview with Tetiana Kochubinska for YourArt.
The Naked Room curators Maria Lanko and Lizaveta German comment, “We have been following Olexandra's practice for several years. She has been persistently testing the limits of the painting medium and questioning her own method of working with it. The works on display are not exactly paintings, although it is the distinctive painterly qualities and Olexandra’s sense of colour that unites these various works into a statement. Now her studio is filled with something completely different. To a certain extent, the exhibition at The Naked Room is a milestone—one that sums up the artist’s practice and leads the way to a new one.”
