hvylya

kyiv | ukraine 2022

During his residency at the Khvylia Sanatorium, Anton turned to the space itself, exploring its history while sensing its present state. Once a hub of rest and recovery, designed for collective living and care for the body, today it appears more as a ruin — stripped of its original function yet filled with echoes of the past. The artist was drawn to this very tension between memory and the present. How did the former idea of order and strength transform into neglect and decay? And the question arose — what is to be done with this?
The presented work was created entirely from materials found on the grounds of the sanatorium, which were still bearing the traces of long-term use.
The answer has yet to be found, and each new attempt to search for it only reveals the depth of the mystery.