tatarczuk +

The exhibition presents several works by Anton Sayenko united by the image of the landscape. The artist gazes attentively into the horizon, seeking to convey its unsettling nature, and at the same time, its tenderness and closeness. Sayenko’s deserted landscapes are charged with emotional presence. While searching for an answer to how one can understand another person’s experience and share their anxiety, Waldemar Tatarczuk performs a critical gesture: he places his own image inside one of the lightboxes. Yet the question remains open: can a gaze directed at the same space truly allow us to share someone else’s fate, or is this only an illusion of closeness?

Anton Sayenko, born in 1989 in Sumy (Ukraine).
Graduated from Bortniansky Sumy Higher College of Arts and Culture (2009) and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2019). Also studied Contemporary Art at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2015) and “Space of Attention” within the experimental self-education project Method Fund (2016). He is a special prize winner of the MUHi Young Ukrainian Artists competition (Kyiv, 2015), winner of the PinchukArtCentre Special Prize (2022), finalist of the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2025). Lives and works in Kyiv.