Pavlo Kovach — exhibitions by the Ukrainian artist and curator

THE EXPLOSION AND THE BELL Bells that inform us of the beginning and the end. Bells from which cannons are cast — and cannons from which bells are cast. Nearby is a plaster cast of the crater left by an explosion. The imprint of absence, of emptiness. The explosion as the beginning and the end…

Pavel Kovach’s project emerges at the intersection of two realities: art and the direct experience of war. The artist, who is currently performing military service, works with materials directly connected to the front line: artefacts, documents, and belongings of the fallen, the wounded, and the…

WANDERING THROUGH PARADISE WITH A TORCH Does Paradise exist — and if so, what conflict does it conceal? Is camouflage necessary in Paradise? And if so, what would it look like? A lightbox as an aggressive marketing gesture and as a night-light — to illuminate the darkness and help you fall asleep…

THERE IS NOTHING HERE Dust always aspires to take the most authentic state — that is, to be dispersed throughout the room space. The cleaner, meanwhile, is trying to collect dust in one place, so as to raise our awareness of where the dust is: in the dustpan or in the bin bag. It turns out that the…

Aware of their helplessness before the inevitable flow of time, people have tried to contain it within a clock face. Yet this has never made it possible to return from the past, even for a moment. At best, we can catch only ourselves — trapped in a closed circle, endlessly chasing a lost second…