For Guests

This series of objects examines storage as a form of anticipation. Items left «for guests» exist in a peculiar state: they are no longer part of daily life, yet they retain the potential for a future event. In Soviet daily life, storage was tied not only to practicality but also to a concept of the future—people saved, deferred, and preserved things for another time. Along with these items were preserved certain images of that future: notions of home, order, nature, and well-being.

In this work, the discovered Soviet storage cabinets become a space of such anticipation. Inside them, polystyrene mimics fabric, and the surfaces are adorned with images of natural motifs and fragments of Soviet everyday life. Through these images, the colors of the cabinet bottoms appear—blue hues reminiscent of the sky.

The natural image is here placed within a storage space: the sky becomes the internal content of an object. Through this series of objects, I pose the question: «For whom is this sky being stored, and will there come a time when it returns to the outside?»

Through transforming an everyday object into an object of observation, the artwork addresses the moment when the familiar ceases to be understood. This shift evokes a state closely akin to Heideggerian dread—a state where the object ceases to be part of the everyday and reveals a hidden layer of its own being.