«Lost movement»: an artist from Mykolaiv presented a performance about her hometown in Poland

In Wroclaw, Poland, a performance by Mykolaiv artist Nana Biakova «The Lost Movement» was shown.

According to the organizers, in her work the author tried to give inanimate and immobile creatures the properties of living things and vice versa

At the end of 2023, after three years in exile in Japan, Nana Biakova returned to her native city of Mykolaiv for the first time. Immovable objects of the city — the missile cruiser «Ukraine», construction cranes, crystal wine glasses in a sideboard and a dress in an abandoned Mykolaiv apartment — became the subject of her research.

It is noted that in the work the objects are considered as part of the bodily archive, and the body as an object. The video installation included movement compositions filmed both in various places in Mykolaiv and in artist's apartment.

The performance was shown within the final laboratory of the «What's Next» program. For two years, Nana Biakova has been researching different formats of residencies, as well as local and international interaction. It is implemented in partnership with organizations from five countries: Poland, Germany, Austria, Romania and Ukraine.

Nana Biakova is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher. Since 2016, Nana has devoted herself to the practice of Ankoku Butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance that emerged after World War II and is often called the «dance of death.»

We will remind that on November 19, an exhibition dedicated to the 1000th day of the full-scale war in Ukraine was opened in the House of Fleet Officers (FLO) in Mykolaiv.