Research Platform: Anna Zvyagintseva. Inappropriate Touches within PAC-UA

PAC-UA presents the 6th project – a solo exhibition Anna Zvyagintseva titled “Inappropriate Touches.” The project is based on the idea of a trail, a trace, unconscious following of someone else’s path – and at the same time a path that can be traced by our subtle touches. In her works, the artist often highlights the unnoticed, elusive facets of our life, emphasizing its vulnerability and capturing fleeting, invisible moments. 

The exhibition “Inappropriate Touches” includes sculpture, graphics, installation, and animation, as well as photographs found on social networks of elusive touches in private and social life, from maternal to public. In these seemingly abstract works, the artist captures and reveals elusive moments of touch that persist on the bodily level – that which exists in the realm of physical experience. And she transforms this experience through various artistic media.

The monumental installation is based on one of the found photographs, in which the artist seems to depersonalize the bodily, isolating volume. The installation line, connecting two exhibition spaces, also begins to function as a dividing line, turning into a metaphor for the encroachment of one territory on another, one body on another. At the same time, the artist depersonalizes these territories and deprives them of the bodily. The line becomes a visible boundary of the act of encroachment/touch, leaving the possibility of memory and trace of physical interaction.

Anna Zvyagintseva was born in 1986 in  Dnipropetrovsk. She lives and works in Kyiv. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, department of easel painting. Member of the curatorial group “Khudrada,” co-editor of the online publication Prostory.net.ua about art, literature, translation. Nominee of the competition among young Ukrainian artists MUKhi 2010 and the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013. Winner of the special prize and the public award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2015. In 2015, she represented the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 56th Venice Biennale in the group exhibition “Hope.”

Exhibition curator – Tetiana Kochubinska.