Ihor Okuniev
Ihor Okuniev is a multimedia artist working in various media including photography, video and sound, inspired by his interest in Ukrainian culture, nature, ethnography and folklore.
The first solo exhibition was at the invitation of Haus Der Kunst Museum for Terrace Hall as part of "Tune" in 2022 in Munich, Germany. With the sound work - "Land". The work was also shown at other exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.
FIELDS
2025
Sound Installation, 10 Min
UNTITLED
2024
Photographs on aludibond
UNTITLED
2025
Photographs on aludibond
As part of an evolving body of work, Fields aims to evoke the atmosphere of the landscape surrounding the artist during the war. Field recordings of frozen forests and the “cold” sounds of winter nature complete the synthesized rhythms of the composition. It is a trace of symbolic and personal memory that becomes a vibrant fragment in the vortex of history. Ihor Okuniev creates a minimalist soundscape of a Ukrainian winter, intertwining the sounds of rain and wind with sounds of bomb shelling.
Accompanied by two photographs taken by the artist in eastern Ukraine, the piece underscores the materiality of the landscape and offers a lower vantage point perspective. The earth is depicted as a habitable environment, almost endowed with agency and serving as provisional shelter for human bodies. The captured place has no distinct features, demonstrating the universality of the situation, regardless of location: civilization going underground in the face of war.
This sound work was commissioned for the “Against Sun and Dust 5th Edition: Cyprien Gaillard” exhibition.