Stanislava Pinchuk: Surface To Air

Ukrainian-born artist Stanislava Pinchuk, aka Miso presents Surface To Air, an exhibition that creatively maps the final year of the Ukrainian Civil War.

Reflecting the way conflict materialises between the ground and the sky the artist has mapped surface topographies with the folds of fabric sheets and plots of changing borders and conflicts as they fall. While the textiles function as graphic data maps, the drawings show a more personal feeling of standing on fragile ground, and how easily it can be pulled from underneath.

These works, alongside a variety of artwork using the sewing pin medium, are intended as a powerful reference to the history and visual language of women mapping conflict through textiles, from Afghan war rugs and Ghanaian Kanga prints to American Civil War quilts and European battle tapestries.

In contracts, the Air works represent wild, gestural sonic notations, illustrating the way in which war looms over a city. Using data from loops of news footage, these intuitive drawings plot the reverberations, echoes and ringing of car bombs, missiles, grenades and riots.

The title, Surface To Air, not only hints at missiles used in the conflict but also to a personal experience of war. Emphasising this aspect and completing the collection is a work charting a single heartbeat, accompanied by a quiet pulse constantly playing in the exhibition space.

The sound references a beating, flickering eternal flame in a World War 2 memorial in Kharkov, Ukraine, the home city of Pinchuk. Located upon a killing field, it is said that upon discovery, the earth was still moving with prisoners of war buried alive, echoing a collective heartbeat through the forest air. It is how war has always existed, surface moving to air, pulsating, always keeping on.

Surface To Air will be on display at Karen Woodbury Gallery in Melbourne, Australia until Saturday 3 October 2015.

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