{"id":10710,"date":"2026-06-14T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spilne.art\/?p=10710"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:51:55","slug":"sad-ch-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spilne.art\/en\/sad-ch-b\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abBlack &#038; White Garden\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u00abWhen you finally take off your shoes and walk barefoot along the sandy shore\u2026\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 5, the exhibition <em>\u00abBlack &amp; White Garden\u00bb<\/em> opened \u2014 a painting project by artist Vasyl Tkachenko (Liakh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00abBlack &amp; White Garden\u00bb<\/em> brought together Vasyl\u2019s paintings and graphic works in a sequence of landscapes that did not necessarily belong to any specific place. In his curatorial text, Sashko Protiah described them as places that \u00abbelonged to no one: sand, slag, black soil, chalk, reeds, haze, tumbleweed\u00bb. Images appeared and disappeared, scrolling past \u00ablike a digital scroll\u00bb, creating a space where sensation preceded recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was not a landscape in the conventional sense, but rather a state of being: a moment when one\u2019s eyes burned from staring, and the body began to respond \u2014 movement emerged, balance became uncertain, as if the viewer had already stepped inside the environment itself. Ultimately, this trajectory led to a \u00abblooming black-and-white garden with a profound crater at its center\u00bb \u2014 an image in which everyone could discover their own \u00abcrater\u00bb and its personal meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasyl Tkachenko (Liakh) is an artist born in Mariupol who now lives and works in Kyiv. His practice spans painting, drawing, photography, film, and music, with a focus on memory and identity. Before the full-scale invasion, his artistic practice remained largely peripheral. With the outbreak of war, painting became a way for him to process uncertainty and experiences of loss connected to Mariupol and the fate of his family. His works often depict familiar, almost everyday scenes charged with the tension and transformations unfolding around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasyl Tkachenko\u2019s works are held in the collections of contemporary art museums in Kyiv and Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition was curated by Sashko Protiah \u2014 a documentary filmmaker, volunteer from Mariupol, and co-founder of the Freefilmers collective. His work explores themes of memory, othering, and alienation. 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