🗓️ May 9–12, 2025
📍 Rotor2, HDK-Valand, Teatergatan 5, Göteborg
This is my first solo exhibition. It’s a rehearsal in many senses: an attempt, a process, a way of showing something that’s still unfolding. I’m presenting ongoing work from my artistic research project Rehearsals of Refusal in Rotor2, one of the student-run galleries at HDK-Valand.
The project begins from a personal place: my connection to Crimea, where I was born and where my parents grew up. I’ve lived in Belgium since early childhood, and have mostly known Crimea from the diaspora. Like many others with ties to places shaped by conflict, I’m grieving both what I’ve lost and what I never got to fully know. But this project refuses that separation. It refuses the idea that imperial violence should sever the ties between people and their places.
Rather than trying to return to a fixed point of origin, I’m interested in what happens when we let go of that idea. How do we relate to places that are out of reach? What if belonging is something improvised, made up of detours, substitutions, and long routes?
The project imagines potential forms of reconnection through work with clay, language, performance, and traces from personal and historical archives.
This approach is shaped by potential history, a concept developed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. It offers a way to rehearse alternative relationships to the past – refusing the idea that history is settled, and instead treating it as something that can still be worked with, re-opened, and reshaped.
Some of the work is finished. Some of it isn’t. You’re invited to come by, spend time with the process, and see where things are at right now.
→ More about the research and potential history in my thesis:
https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/86615
🕓 Opening hours:
Friday 9/5 – 16.00–20.00
Saturday 10/5 – 12.00–17.00
Sunday 11/5 – closed
Monday 12/5 – 11.00–13.00
Design by Lani Fusako Duvall.
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