2014 eng

This was another milestone year for the “Borderland Space” symposium. After a short break, the participants returned to Mohrytsia with renewed plans, ambitions, and intentions for long-term development. A new main location was chosen—near a chalk quarry on the outskirts of the village. This move had not only practical but also conceptual significance: from then on, the quarry, with its powerful relief, plasticity, and geological memory, became a permanent co-creator of artistic gestures and the key topography of the symposium. The participants continued to develop the idea of creating a permanent land art park in this very place.

The seriousness of these plans was confirmed by the founding of the public organisation “Art Agency Borderland Space,” which assumed responsibility for the organisational and administrative support of the symposium. Yurii Vyshniakov became the director, and the new team included Vitalii Kokhan, Nadiia Bilokur, Olha Zaloha, Bohdan Babenko, Roman Lynnyk, Maryna Konieva, Yaroslava Maistrenko, Yevheniia Shudra, and Yevhen Kosianenko—artists, managers, and coordinators.

The visual marker of this period was the landmark work “Taurus” by Ganna Gidora and Oleh Kokhan—a drawing cleared on a chalk slope with the help of a bulldozer. The giant figure of a calf, visible from a great distance, became a powerful marker of the symposium’s presence in the landscape.

Yevheniia and Serhii Shudra initiated the tradition of annual catalogues, which were compiled throughout the year and accompanied each symposium.

Among the landmark projects of this year was Yaroslava Maistrenko’s “Weightlessness,” an installation in which fragments of the chalk quarry appeared to rise, levitating above the surface. The chalk pyramids seemed suspended between gravity and weightlessness.

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