PLAYGROUND
1 channel video, 2025
A few months ago, I began reading a book titled The Blue Fox by the Icelandic author Sjón. I took the book with me to the residency. The first thing I saw in the Rietz forest were the foam animals used for Bogenparcour practice. After some time coexisting with these non-animals and with the forest, I decided to read to them one of the chapters from the book, in which the story between a hunter and a fox unfolds. The video piece is a gesture, an attempt to explain to these creatures what happened to them, why they are hunted, why they are wounded. The latex and ceramic installation extends those reflections, or what I call a wounded vision, as a result of the war and the context I come from.
– Oksana Pohrebennyk
behind the scenes…
hinterGRUND
working process, 2025
MY FEET ARE SWEET AS CANDY COTTON
ALL THOSE BOYS WANT ITS BOTTOM
MY FINGERS ARE SWEET AS PAPER GLUE
ALL THE GIRLS GRAB 4, 5, TWO
MY TONGUE IS SWEET AS MENTHOL COKE
DARK BROWN BONES ARE MADE OUT OF JOKE
BUBBLES, BUBBLES EVERYWHERE, NOW I BURY YOU IN THIS GRAVE
exhibition view, GRUND1535, 2025
Oksana Pohrebennyk
(1994) born in Kherson, raised in Bilbao. Works with photo, video and text. Interested in the human and non-human body in its sensual and affective manifestations. She completed her studies in Contemporary, Technological and Performative Arts in Spain and is co-founder of Memory Lab collective. Currently she is based in Ukraine.
From June–July 2025, Oksana did an artist residency at GRUND1535 in the frame of the program FOKUS INTERNATIONAL Office Ukraine (Re)creation Residency with the support by Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen.
the studio / hinterGRUND
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