Closer to Home
plaster of Paris, copper sulphate, magnesium sulphate, potassium alum
dimensions variable
2023
“Notions of territorial sovereignty and the brutality of military occupation are interrupted by delicate crystalline chemistries, which are characteristic of Spivak’s established creative methodology…this new body of work offers a comment on longing, on closeness, and on the impossibility of returning home in the existing geopolitical climate of the Ukrainian war.”
Luhansk, 37 x 25cm
Kherson, 33 x 24cm
Kyiv, 39 x 29cm
Crimea, 30 x 25cm
Donetsk, 37 x 27cm
Kharkiv, 30 x 28cm
Zaporizhzhia, 35 x 28cm