We present video art by Crimean-Zaporizhzhia artist Nastia Loiko.
The Municipal Gallery’s underground venue, the “Art Basement”, has long been known for its hospitality toward media art. This time it presents the project “Effortless Work”. Several video installations take us on a journey from Kharkiv to Crimea, where “The beach is a territory of naked revelations on the boundary of water, earth and air, without documents or clothes. To the beach! We crawled silently down toward the sea, embracing large stones, where cicadas lick the pebbles. At family breakfasts over cucumbers, bread and crabs, the president’s black helicopter hovered in the sky combed through by border guards,” Nastia Loiko shares her impressions. The artist observes how every September the coast stages its own performance: rains of little frogs, flocks of swans on the estuary, while in the Year of the Snake there were so many snakes on the island that they turned into a subway for flies. The bird of happiness, burdened by civilization, becomes a symbol of “Freedom, no matter what.”

Since 2006 — coordinator of the Artzebs Contemporary Art Gallery.
Video art, installations.
International Symposium of Contemporary Art Biryuchyi 008, 009, 010, 012, 013
ESF Super Short Film Festival 2008, Moscow
“Belka and Strelka by Vladimir Gulich” project, installation, Zaporizhzhia
Video. Art-Kyiv 2008
Terra Futura Festival, photography, video, Kherson, 2008
Kuyalnyk Expedition — Endangered Species, Odesa, 2010
2nd Odesa Biennale, Odesa, 2010
“Ghosts of Livadia”, Green Pyramid Gallery, Sevastopol; Karas Gallery, video, 2011
Contemporary Art Kyiv 2012, special project “Biryuchyi”, Mystetskyi Arsenal
“Private Territory” with Vladimir Gulich, Kvartyra Art Center, Dnipropetrovsk, 2013
International Symposium “Where Do the Vines Lead?”, Mykhailivskyi Ravelin, Sevastopol, 2013, and others.