Olga Chekotovska is an artist, co-founder, and co-curator of the Light art group. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Ukraine and Poland. Lives and works in Germany and Ukraine.
The Unseen project is dedicated to the invisible daily work that is part of the artistic process and is its basis. This exhibition is about the continuous and routine work of the artist, which does not always have a complete result and only in some cases turns into a masterpiece.
“The artist’s work often remains beyond the horizon of the visible. Sometimes it is devalued by society, pushed to the margins. At the same time, work is a natural condition for the existence of an artist, a force that transforms an idea into a material work, imaginary into real.
Viewers are interested not so much in the process of creating a work, as its result. In an artist’s career, this result is called a masterpiece. The creation of a masterpiece is a sacred, mystified act, with a taste of God’s gift that came out of nowhere in the hour of X. It is difficult to imagine that an artist carries out purposeful activities to create the material and spiritual goods needed to meet the needs of each individual and society as a whole.
In the Unseen project, I would like to desecrate the process of creating a work of art, to show the invisible movements of the artist during his daily work, to identify the procedural component of his work.
Continuation of these manifested movements of the artist is his sketches. Most of them will never be completed works. There will be a lack of funding, no institutions or curators to pay attention to them, family circumstances or another economic crisis, and possibly the destruction of the war. However, some of them will survive all obstacles and become works of visual art”.
