NADA New York 2025

Saša Tkačenko’s interest lies with the politics of remembrance, culture of nostalgia, and the fragile position of the individual in relation to the dynamic movements on a global societal level.
Usually working with spatial connections and the signature use of text and design, the new wall installations are layered from a poster background and engraved aluminium composite panels, which contain smaller versions of the posters as archival prints. In this case, words like VOID, FALL or HOLE that we’re faced with are synonymous with negative space, and turn into abstract signifiers - words that point to what isn’t there, or what’s been removed. In a way, the posters of the installation function as spatial reminders, as memorabilia of our emotional states and our shared moments, of how things we encounter on the street everyday in passing become part of the backdrop for larger events happening on the cultural landscape. Emerging from a specific temporal context, the works break away from their sources to create new meaning in the present.