ORIGIN - A Social Sculpture project

According to Michel Foucault "the authority does not simply exist, it functions as a matrix of transformations". Social Sculpture lifts aesthetic concerns from the confines of an isolated sphere or media, relocating it within a collective, imaginative work-space in which we can see, re-think and reshape our lives in tune with our creative potential.

Origin, is a multi-part exhibition created by Ukrainian artist, Oksana Chepelyk that includes a three channel video installation, real-time outdoor video projection and photography. The work incorporates an information visualization component that examines the genetic currency of the nation. The "Origin" project has allowed Oksana to create unique installations for each region of the world where the project is installed. The MOV-iN Gallery exhibit will include a real-time data stream that monitors each newborn birth taking place in New Mexico to be superimposed on video images of infants provided by local volunteer parents from Santa Fe area. This Information, received from an internet source, triggers visual changes affecting projected video images of children collected from around the world. Every act of childbirth adds to the collective image of a newborn baby.

OKSANA CHEPELYK was born in Kiev, studied at the State Institute of Art in Kiev (1978-1984), which was followed by a post-graduate course in Moscow (1986-1988). She then studied at the CIES in Paris (1995), at Amsterdam University (1998), at Bauhaus Dessau, Germany (2000-2002). She was a recipient of the Fulbright Program Award (USA) where she developed artistic research at UCLA (2003-2004). As an artist she has been awarded grants in France, Germany, Spain, USA, Canada and England (1992-2003). From 1993 she organised thirteen solo exhibitions in Europe and America, and participated in a number of joint exhibitions (Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, France, USA, Sweden, Croatia, Brazil, Austria, Macedonia). Her works were shown in MOMA, New York (1998), in "ART FAIR" Stockholm, Sweden (1999), in Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia (1999), in German Historical Museum, Berlin (2000) and Munich, Germany (2001), in Museum of the Arts History, Vienna, Austria (2001), "SEAFair 2002", Museums of Modern Arts, Skopje, Macedonia (2002), Museums of Jurassic Technologies, Los Angeles, the USA (2003). She has also attended various festivals focusing on film, video and new media: 1998 (Kiev, New York, London, Tallinn, St Petersburg), 1999 (Osnabruck, Kiev, Montecatini, Linz, Tallinn, Moscow), 2000 (Kiev, Paris), 2001 (Paris-Berlin, Oberhausen, Montecatini, Kiev, Liverpool, Moscow), 2002 (Paris, Osnabruck, Belo Horizonte, Karlovy Vary /A category/, Montecatini, Chisinau, Kiev, Weimar, Tel-Aviv), 2003 (Paris, Ankara, Osnabruck, Pesaro, Berlin). She has recently recieved the Werklietz Award 2003 at the European Festival of Media Art, Osnabruck, Germany. In 2007, Oksana founded the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCULPTURE in Kiev, dedicated to public art, micro geographies and intercultural exchanges. She is currently an artists in residence in the Department of Moving Image Arts at the College of Santa Fe made possible by the ArtsLink Independent Projects Award (USA).

Opening Friday, November 2nd at 4:45 - 7:30 PM in MOV-iN Gallery

Exhibit will run 11AM-9PM Mon - Thursday, 11AM-5PM on Fridays through December 3, 2007.

Gallery Hours: Mon - Thu 11am - 9pm.
Fridays 11am - 5pm.
Weekends by Appointment.
Contact MOV-iN at 505.473.6400