HYLAEA 5 (2019)
Here time unravels like fly-paper
dangling by the window.
Hylaea 5 is an installation centred around a short film showcased alongside naive Ukrainian paintings. The work recounts the search for the land of Hylaea, home of the Scythians but also birthplace of the Ukrainian avant-garde centered around the figure of David Burliuk. A mixture of documentary and fiction, animation and road movie, the film seeks to evoke Hylaea simultaneously as myth and as a place deeply rooted in Ukrainian history. Presenting material shot in Southern Ukraine in Autumn 2019, HYLEA 5 invites viewers to consider how radical and forgotten histories can be accessed and reframed.
The initial stages of Hylaea V were developed in the course of a residency at Izolyatsia (Kiev). A first version of the project was presented at Karz-12 in December 2019.