Photo Murals:

The artwork reflects an old-fashioned way of decorating interiors, where people used to place large photographs of nature on their walls.

The artist was born in Ukraine in the post-Soviet period and grew up in an environment where such images were part of everyday domestic life.

In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, many people in Ukraine faced financial difficulties and could not easily travel to places such as the Maldives, the Alps, or Niagara Falls. As a result, these landscapes entered private interiors through printed images placed on walls. For the artist, these images often appeared artificial during childhood.

The photographs in this project were taken later, at a time when travel had become more accessible. However, encounters with carefully composed natural landscapes during these travels repeatedly triggered a return to earlier memories — when such views existed primarily as representations within domestic space.

Today, a different condition emerges. While mobility has increased, nature itself is under significantly greater pressure, including as a result of mass tourism and human impact on the environment. The project introduces disrupted or damaged images to reflect this shift and to point to the growing impact of human activity on the natural environment.

The work raises the question of future access to nature. While it is still possible to experience it directly today, this condition cannot be taken for granted. The project suggests a possible reversal: that in the near future, nature may again be encountered primarily through images.

This is a long-term project based on photographs taken during the artist’s travels.