Volodymyr Kolbasa

Neutralization

2022 · five installations · JUMP Contemporary Art Center, Poltava

Five installations on the Russian invasion, shown together in Poltava in 2022.

Bledina

A missile model hangs in a room lit red.
Form
Interactive installation
The work
A full-size model of a Kh-55 cruise missile in a red room. To deactivate it, you shout at it.
Made with
Vartan Markarian and Vadym Makhitka

Dew in the Sun

Small tanks made of sugar, some melted into dark syrup, on steel plates.
Form
Sugar, steel · co-author
The work
Russian tanks cast in sugar. Over the weeks of the show they melt into one sticky puddle.

House of Porcelain

A white porcelain figurine sits on a pile of ash. House of Porcelain, installation view.
Form
Camera obscura, model of a house in Borodyanka, porcelain · co-author
The work
A dark room that works as a pinhole camera: the street outside is projected onto a model of a house hit by a missile. In the burnt flats only the white porcelain figurines survived.

Seedlings

A round loaf of bread with a projected pattern, lying in dark soil. Seedlings, installation view.
Form
Projection mapping, bread, black soil, a fragment of a tank · co-author
The work
A loaf lies in black soil next to a piece of a Russian tank. The work is dedicated to Ukrainian farmers and to the price of that year's bread.

Half-life

A point-cloud scan of a destroyed tank. Half-life, still. Half-life, still.
Form
VR installation, photogrammetry
The work
Scans of real burnt Russian military vehicles, made on trips to the north of Ukraine. In the headset their outlines slowly fall apart.
Made with
Vartan Markarian and Vadym Makhitka