The interdisciplinary project Making Oddkin by Maria Proshkovska is presented as two parallel exhibitions: at OUTPOST Gallery in Norwich, UK and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Co-commissioned and presented as part of the Platforma festival, produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Maria Proshkovska works with Ukrainian grain burnt by missile strikes as living evidence of loss, resistance, and the potential for recovery. The artist began this project in 2023, presenting a five-hour performance Farina at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna (MAMbo). Documentation of this performance was since purchased for the collection of Central Saint Martins College and is now part of the college’s curriculum.
The exhibitions in Zaporizhzhia and Norwich feature a photographic object, new film, and installation. This installation is largely made of adobe, a material traditionally used in various cultures for construction, symbolising the need for collective labor as an act of mutual support.
Proshkovska creates conditions for dialogue between the gallery spaces in Ukraine and the UK. Viewers in Norwich and Zaporizhzhia become co-habitors of a shared landscape, formed through co-presence and mutual sensitivity. Making Oddkin is the search for new forms of closeness and responsibility between cultures, based on shared values and care.
Maria Proshkovska (b. 1986) is a conceptual and socially engaged artist from Kyiv, who currently lives between Ukraine and the UK. Her work operates at the intersection of performance, installation, and feminist criticism, exploring themes of memory, trauma, corporeality, and gender-determined social processes. Proshkovska completed a master’s programme in Performance: Society at Central Saint Martins, UAL. She is a scholarship holder of international programmes and has participated in numerous exhibitions in countries including Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Japan, and Taiwan. Proshkovska’s works are held in the Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection, MAMbo, Shcherbenko Art Centre and in private collections.
Film screening and Q & A: 3pm Saturday 4th and 3pm Sunday 5th
4.10-26.10 Thurs-Sun 12-6pm or by appointment
