Lada Nakonechna
Lada Nakonechna is an artist, researcher, who has been working within several artistic, curatorial and editorial groups since 2005. In 2015 Nakonechna co-founded the Method Fund — an independent, nonprofit organization aimed at supporting and developing contemporary art and culture in Ukraine by initiating scientific, educational and exhibition projects. Her work crosses disciplines, and calls attention to methods of recognition, revealing the internal aspects of visual and verbal structures.
Studium des Menschen
2022
Papier-mâché, steel
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
The artist connects tubes of black steel using knee molds made of papier-mâché. Reminiscent of ancient statues, this group of objects refers to an abstract, universal body. They move even further away from the human body. As objects, they are displayed in the exhibition space and are thus ultimately dehumanized. At the same time, the fragile sculptures refer to relics of buildings or monuments, whereby, in the face of destruction, the fragility of human life and social habitat appears equally in the fragments.