This is an exhibition of TSEKH Gallery from Kyiv, presenting artists they have been working with for over 15 years, developing unique visual languages, and explores the boundaries of fiction and memory.

Each of the artists delves into the realm of elusive memories, creating worlds that can be both alien and familiar, real and imagined. Where is the boundary between reality and illusion? Can we remember something that never happened?
Their works attempt to reconstruct an unrealized past, to piece together images that slip away at the edge of memory.
They engage with archetypal narratives, fantastical landscapes, and the shadows of the lost, materializing the illusion of remembrance.

Mykola Bilous creates large-scale paintings in which layers of color and form accumulate like different versions of the same dream. He has developed his own unique method of color harmonization, giving his works a distinctive dynamism and depth of perception.

Ievgen Petrov is a virtuoso master of watercolor and sculpture in classical techniques. His meticulously executed works embody surrealistic narratives where reality intertwines with the fantastic, evoking the sensation of encountering long-forgotten dreams.

Rustam Mirzoev explores the phenomenon of “collective memory”, blending painting and graphic techniques. His works resemble archival documents blurred by time, yet their details are often absurd or entirely impossible.

Yaroslav Derkach works with sculpture, objects, and symbols, creating things that never existed but feel eerily familiar. His images are coded signs and metaphors, referencing the collective unconscious and vanished worlds.

Each work in the exhibition is an invitation to a dialogue with one’s own memory, to doubt and discovery. Some of these images may awaken deeply buried personal sensations. Or, conversely, they may raise the question: does a memory truly exist if it is not anchored in reality?

The “Pseudomemory” exhibition invites viewers on a journey through the labyrinth of memory and fiction, where everyone will find their own reflected world.

Oleksandr Shchelushchenko
TSEKH contemporary art gallery