Dymchuk Gallery presents Alisa Gots’s project, The End of the Land. The exhibition includes graphics, sculpture, photography, and video created by the author over the last three years.
The artist began the project in 2022 during a short residency at the Euxine Society in Sulina, Romania. Exploring the territory and traditions of the area, Alisa reflects on the impact of being far from a big city on a modern person and is inspired by the experience of living in a temporary multicultural community.
Sulina, with a population of about 5000 inhabitants, is located on the Sulina estuary in the Danube Delta. Surrounded by the river and the Black Sea, the area seemed to the artist like an island – unexplored and peaceful. During the S.T.O.R.Y residency, Alisa created a series of photographs that gave rise to The End of the Land. In blue and blue colors, using stone and aluminum, the author printed seascapes and deserted landscapes, local objects, and artifacts that she captured during her walks in Sulina.
The center of the exhibition is a big metaphorical map with steps, like a board game. Moving along a spiral path, the player encounters introspective questions that deepen his journey and engage him in a private Odyssey. With the shades of the sea in the exhibition, the artist creates a conditional space outside of time: a place where you can pause, think, and listen to yourself, a place “at the end of the land.”
About the author:
Alisa Gots born in 1988 in Kyiv, where she lives and works. In 2012, she graduated from the Institute of Printing of NTUU KPI with a master’s degree in graphic arts. In 2013, with Nina Savenko and Taras Kobliuk, she founded the independent lithography studio Lithography30. The studio’s members work mainly in stone lithography. Lithography30 is the only independent lithographic workshop in Ukraine, which acts as an artistic association and an open educational platform where people can learn this printmaking technique.
She has participated in many exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, both as an independent artist and as a member of Lithography30.