Once There Was a Girl, So Much Like Me
performance, 6°00′00″, installation, acrylic, plastic, slide projector, 200×150×150 cm
2023-2024
The performance is a game played by two grown-up girls, weaving themselves into the fragile space of the past. Their dialogue unfolds around an old photograph — one that could have served as proof of memory’s reality, yet only reveals the gaping voids within it.
"Let’s play a game in which I don’t exist.
Not ‘was gone’ or ‘won’t be’ —
But never was."
Shall we? Play?
OLYA MAKHNO | ALEXANDRA PAVLOVSKAYA
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As part of the project, the performer created an image while inside a cube — placing the painting between themselves and the viewer, shielding from the outside world, hiding behind the drawing.
The closer the work came to its end, the less visible the artist became — until they disappeared completely