MARYNA HANDYSH
SCULPTOR
CERAMIST ARTIST
ARRAKIS
2015
Land-art object
This work was created at the International Land-Art festival "Mythogenesis", Vinnytsya, Ukraine.
The work is inspired by Frank Herbert's novel "Dune".
The mechanism consists of film and plants that consume precipitation due to retention on the film. Such system is placed above the river, not touching the water.
There used to be an old mill where object was created. This work is about conscious attitude of the team to its ecosystem. This is all about the decision to restore the ecosystem by applying restrictions onto yourself. Restraint to preserve nature for future generations.
The GUARDIANS
2019
Land-art objects.
For me, this shore became an army of angels who layered, rested, flew, swam, broke, coexisted, seemed invisible ...
I was looking for them. and saw their wings so sharp and so clear.
Just then it became clear to me that they are invisible angels who have chosen life among the mule. It has nothing evolutionarily complex and developed (I wonder, is there a "leg" in each of them, which they use to cling to or move). However, they constantly filter the water, and it's their common natural feature.
The water which is life for us. They purify the lives of all living beings. And it seems to be so insignificant. I wonder, how many of those filters lay on the shore like scrap. Lots and lots.
And only the contours remain on the shore, when these wings are swept from above by sand. And in time those contours are also washed away.
Invisible contours. Invisible actions. How many angels nearby? How much goes unnoticed?
AGING
2019
Land-art object
We used to have a permanent place to live, built a house, planted trees. We felt safe in our home ...
Now we are small, we have a migratory lifestyle. Mostly we do not root anywhere. We seem to have a home with us, but at the same time we have become more dependent on each other, globalization has erased certain borders and our independence has moved to another dimension.
It's mystique and vague how this may affect us. Anticipation. Aging.
This work changes over time. Grapes dry up and snail houses fall away altogether.
2022
Video performance
with unfunctional chair
I have put myself in a situation where a chair (stripped of its main functionality) is controlling me, where it is influencing me, and where I am anxious about not knowing what will happen next, and this object becomes a partner in dialogue. It was an unexpected experience: I felt like I was being reborn as I crawled through the chair.
The first thing I had to do was to crawl through it in the most difficult way. It was painful. I wanted this pain. I wanted to understand the pain with the chair, which was confidently standing but which I could not fit into. I wanted to switch roles, to understand what it was like to be the support for the chair. I wanted to explore what would happen when everything planned was realized, what I could do with this object.
And finally, the state when I dissolve into the process and forget that I really have nowhere to sit at the moment. In the global sense, the chair has become a luxury item that is purchased for the long term. It is so interesting - when the object lost its functionality, a dialogue appeared, conscious interaction appeared. Balancing.
Anxiety, planning, and expectations have turned into living in the present and exploration. I am still thinking about this experience.
