We will Survive As Hybrids : : Vernacular Embodiments : : August-September 2023 @ International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago

A Site specific Installation at the International Museum of Surgical Science Through the process of digital stitching, animation, video glitching and augmented reality, I am musing with a multitude of impossibilities: non didactic, grotesque & corporeal; transcending cultural, anatomical & political. Existing in a precarious state of a cancer-previvor, I am mediating danger, substituting the loss, but yet enjoying the empowerment, becoming a cyborg. My cultural conflation: post-Soviet & Russian and my uncharted Ukrainian rootsare another source of dichotomy, inner conflict and inspiration. Within my art practice I am working in cross-mediated plurality, subverting media in my exploration of the fabric of human body, overlapping patterned repetition of cultural archetypes, connecting them into sequential knowledge, creating a parallel universe and living one, being a laboratory subject, yet extending the liminal space and offering possibilities for survival and agency. I am employing animation, embroidery & augmented reality while sequencing my emotional endurances, playing with archetypes, recontextualizing proxy and actual bodies, nurturing and extrapolating, maintaining and holding on. We will survive as Hybrids: Vernacular Embodiments features my current multimedia musings: sculptural, projected, performed, embroidered and augmented.” Embroidery, Video Installation, Audio by Galina Shevchenko , 2023. Experience the hybrids' metaverse