Oksana Chepelyk

For the fashion show, models wore eccentric dresses designed by the director herself. Huge transparent shells made of polyethylene were attached to the dresses. Geometric images were projected onto them, which, thanks to the uneven surface of the polyethylene, took on rounded, soft forms, similar to waves in water or other dynamic substances.

The experimental film is dealing with the process of globalisation represented by multi-layered real urban and virtual spaces, for which new cultural concept has to be developed. Video explores a topic of the ICT issue. Mobile communication, telematic tools, worldwide collaborative structures and global political alliances create a new cultural landscape whose rules will have to be worked on.

A film performance based on the book of the same name by Oksana Zabuzhko, which explores the issue of gender stereotypes and totalitarian prohibitions of the past.

Three parts explore themes of life, birth, and the impact of the Chornobyl disaster. The first part features the artist’s pregnant body adorned with paintings and 3D figures, symbolizing the Ukrainian pysanka and the civilizational field of Earth. The second part juxtaposes footage of a newborn with ultrasound images of the unborn child. The third part imagines twenty years post-Chornobyl, depicting twins with genetic abnormalities, symbolizing societal and genetic issues resulting from the disaster, as they walk hand in hand towards an approaching tram.

Conceptual video based on Oksana Chepelyk's performance realised in Kyiv at the Cultural Center of Deaf-Mute People researches the physical endurance degree of social body. Work is focusing on cultural transformations and communication. If gesture of deaf--mute has an informational capacity, the absurdity of collective gesture is transformed into existential metaphor. The video researches personal physical and political boundaries marked by rituals such as the parades, gymnastic pyramids and traditions. It is a reverberation between an exile and belonging; the work with disabilities people underlines this idea. Project is dealing with utopia of communication and lack of voice in collective Chorus.

The film is about the new social conditions in our country, which have caused a change in survival strategies for a simple rural family. Using the example of one family, it examines the model of today's life in Ukraine, full of daily worries and struggles with difficult circumstances. Instead of enjoying a well-deserved rest in the shade of white acacia trees, Grandpa Ivan and Grandma Stepanida are struggling to survive and provide for their five children in the midst of a crisis. The film explores the personal perspectives of surprisingly open-minded and remarkably optimistic ordinary people in today's difficult situation.

An experimental film based on the author's performance of the same title and interactive installation "Piece of Shit", realised at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada in 1998. The video balances between the research of sexuality and politics. The author appeals to the danger of the 20th century mass illusions and explores a problem of the responsibility.