Born and raised in Kharkiv, Roman Ermylov is engaged in illustration and 2D animation. “Incubator” is his first exhibition project.
An incubator is a place with favorable conditions for the appearance and formation of someone or something in it. The concept of the exhibition is to create an incubator for the emergence of new meanings, images, symbols and rethinking the old ones by returning to the “incubator” state of a person – to childhood.
A well-known property of everything that surrounds us, in any scale and condition, – movement in a spiral – is the key idea. To create something new, it is necessary to return to a state when everything that surrounds a person was new to him. It is this “first impression from childhood” experience that the author creates by using a slide projector as a vivid image from the past and an interaction element based on the riddle – what will be on the next slide? The prologue to the exhibition, a video fairy tale, brings these ideas together, giving the key to the perception of the exhibition as a whole.
“I nurtured the idea of an exhibition using a slide projector for a long time. It all started with a memory of a cold winter evening in kindergarten when the teacher turned on a filmstrip-fairy tale for us. I was fascinated by the ongoing mystery – a beam escaped from a metal box, a magical window into a fairy tale became the center of the universe. It was a strong impression, almost mystical. The memory was vivid, emotional, these are the impressions I want to create with my work. Childhood has always been the strongest source of inspiration for me, and with the exhibition I want to pay special attention to this period of life, combining the impression of both a child and an adult, for whom childhood is not only a memory and vivid emotions but also an incubator for creating new works, ideas and perspectives on the world”.