Gary Bowman Gallery in Lviv is hosting an exhibition entitled “The Room.” The project has engaged two dozen young artists and illustrators from Kyiv and Lviv. Each of them had to put his or her own world in a wooden box.
“When we grow up, the distance we move away from ourselves grows larger and larger. So I thought it would be cool to go back there, to that little tight room in which we were little. It was quite comfortable. But it was so for me, and I saw that it wasn’t quite so for everyone,” said Natalia Haida, illustrator and the exhibition’s curator.
The idea of such an exhibition was conceived back in the autumn, when the week of contemporary art saw the presentation of the collective illustrative project LEMinarium in the basement of the Town Hall. Since then, according to Haida, the idea has evolved into bringing the artists to cooperate not with the same theme, but rather with the same format: a wooden box.
The result of such an experiment was impossible to predict. After all, though the format was the same for everyone, the authors relied on personal experiences of childhood, when their room was the whole world to them, to create content. Therefore, many rooms are filled with different characters, hidden or apparent symbols.
