CHILLTAN

 

 

Chilltan is a Central Asian spirit that contains forty bodies within one.

 

Technically, Chilltan was created through the same process as the other spirits in the series.

 

«A topic that particularly moves me today is the lack of belonging. The question of my national identity has become very relevant to me lately. I felt it was necessary to explore this topic through the Central Asian spirit, as I was born in Uzbekistan and lived there for 21 years, while I am half Ukrainian and half Korean.

 

I wrote a text about it and decided to collect 40 sounds corresponding to the number of heads in the sculpture.

 

To do this, I read my text to 40 people and asked them to interpret the text with a sound they could make with their mouth. In Berlin, it was quite easy to find 40 people in my surroundings who could share my concerns.

 

Using a recording device, I recorded the sounds and then mixed them. At one point, all voices sound simultaneously, like a swarm of bees.

 

It begins with Korean and Ukrainian together, languages I don’t speak, but which are part of my national identity. When I’ve heard them playing together at the same time, it felt like looking in the mirror for the first time. It’s a sonic reflection of my national identity I had never seen before.», says the artist.