Lyoh
Varvara Uhlik's grandmother’s root cellar was lined with shelves of jars filled with pickled fruits and vegetables - a common sight in Soviet Ukraine, where scarcity made preservation a necessity. Drawing on this domestic ritual, the installtion in The Door reflects on the desire for preservation in terms of both sustenance and sentiment. By sealing family photographs from holidays in Crimea and school days in Dnipro together with seasonal vegetables, the piece transforms a familiar act of preservation into a metaphor for memory itself. The jars become vessels of nostalgia and impermanence, embodying the desire to preserve and to savour what will be gone.
Lyoh is the Ukrainian word for Root Cellar.
A private view will take place at the gallery on Thursday 13th November, 6-8pm.
