Current Residents GO.RA
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GO.RA, arch, 2025
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GO.RA, arch (studio view), 2025
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GO.RA, LANDESCAPE, 2025
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GO.RA, LANDESCAPE lenses, 2025
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GO.RA, Resonant Sound Archive | quarry, 2026
Ukrainian conceptual multidisciplinary artist. In his practice, he examines the reactivation of personal and collective experience, and the processes through which collective memory and cultural trauma are formed. He works with the deformation and transformation of identity, with rupture and the intrusive interaction between environment and body, and engages in the analysis and documentation of the spatial archive.
His media evolve into one another, erasing boundaries between material and digital. A significant part of his practice combines new media with wood, metal, glass and fabric, often using secondary and repurposed materials as carriers of memory and witnesses to collective transformations.
During my USRP residency, I intend to continue my investigation of landscape as a spatial archive and a dynamic system of transformation. I will examine how personal and collective memory are inscribed within environments through processes of rupture, diffusion, and interaction between body and space. Through research, observation, and material experimentation, I aim to trace the moment when form enters an ontological pause — before it stabilizes into identity. This inquiry is relevant as it reflects contemporary conditions of instability, displacement, and reconfiguration of collective experience.
Ihor Lesenko’s residency at Nelimarkka Museum is realised in the context of the Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme. The current partners of the programme are AARK, Art Centre Salmela, Fairres, Goethe-Institut Finnland, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, Nelimarkka Museum, Pro Artibus, The Finnish Darkroom Association, The Finnish Illustration Association Kuvittajat, Vantaa Artist Association, and Värtsilä Art House Residency. The continuation of the programme is possible due to the support of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and Nordic Culture Point.