WINNERS 2021

Andriy Sahaidakovsky. The Scenery. Welcome! is an exhibition project of Mystetskyi Arsenal, which continues the line of representation of prominent names in the recent history of Ukrainian art, which includes personal exhibitions of Oleg Holosiy, Kirill Protsenko, Oleksandr Hnylytsky. Among those already implemented, Andriy Sahaidakovsky’s project is distinguished by its experimental nature—the space of the Arsenal will be transformed into a total installation created by the artist. This will allow to fully immerse oneself in the artist’s work and to see his method in action. Sahaidakovsky’s creative method is based on the use of familiar things in an unusual way. In his work, the artist uses anomalous sounds, pungent and specific odors, “trash” materials, gnarly inscriptions. His installations literally wrap and at the same time split the closed structure of the exhibition space, decontextualize it. Given this, the scenery as a motif of combining the real and the illusion becomes one of the through lines of the exhibition. Such scenery is like a game with exhibition halls and inside them. It is interesting to wander in space in fascinating anticipation of what will happen next, what will show up in the next halls, what else the author will offer.