CURRENT EXHIBITION

VICTORIA BULGAKOVA

UKRAINE

5 April - 27 April 2024

Victoria Bulgakova grew up in Mariupol, Ukraine and immigrated to the US at the age of 20. She has experienced what it's like to be thrown into a new culture and a new context. How do you deal with the new? How do you adapt to something unknown and foreign?

In the 80s, girls in former Soviet, now Ukraine, had to wear uniforms in school adorned with white collars they had to sew on themselves. Both the uniform and collar felt like confinement, something to rebel against. However, many years later, memory treats them as objects of deep longing and nostalgia, associated with the most endearing experiences of school years. The ‘Uniform’ body of work explores this shift in perspective; what is more real, our experience in the present or how we end up remembering it in the future?