Exhibition "A Landscape Told in Words"

On June 28 at 5:00 PM, the Experimental Studio will open an exhibition by Sofia Korotkevych, titled “A Landscape Told in Words.”

The exhibition explores the landscape as a site of transformation and fragility. The artist works with representations of the steppe shaped through the memories of others, encounters in museums, textbooks, and news reports.

The exhibition features several artistic series, in which natural elements, in various forms, record crimes against the environment. The objects from the series “Herbaria of a Burned Landscape” speak to the literal scorched wounds of the steppe caused by warfare. The installation “My Cocoon” invites the viewer into contact — to wrap oneself in a curtain and spend time alone with their inner landscape. The graphic series “A Landscape Told in Words” depicts a fragmented vision of the steppe based on borrowed memories and personal associations.

“When I — or someone else — eventually sees the postwar steppe with our own eyes, it will already be a new version. The original steppe will live only in the past. You can’t fill the absence of your own impressions using someone else’s. This project is dedicated to an in-between steppe — an imagined one, assembled from fragments of memory, stories, and internal projections.”

Sofia Korotkevych (b. 1995) is an artist from Lviv, Ukraine. She studied monumental painting at the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts and later specialized in art glass at the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

In her artistic practice, Korotkevych explores the natural properties of materials, seeking ways to engage with them through a dialogue rather than imposing her intentions. Instead of forcing materials to conform to her vision, she aims to create a space where their physical characteristics can fully reveal themselves. Her works capture a range of emotional and physical states observed in both social and natural environments. She primarily works in art glass, installation, environmental art, graphic media, and video.

Admission is free.

The exhibition will run through July 19.

The Experimental Studio is a space on the second floor of DCCC, dedicated to experimental practices and work with emerging artists.