Hill-art

When a person possesses an institutional education in art, upon viewing a work, they invariably begin to seek resemblances to what is already stored in their memory. These individuals most often hold degrees in the arts; they frequent exhibition halls, attend lectures, read books, and so on.

For this specific milieu, I needed to name exactly what I have been doing for many years—beyond simply defining it as the self-organized "Fiction Gallery Expedition." It was a wandering definition, drifting between the evolutionarily blurred boundaries of Western terminological models: "Land Art," "Public Art," "Environment." All of these are similar, yet not quite right due to the specificity of the exhibition site.

So I took it a step further: if the objects were constructed exclusively on hills, and the environmental panorama plays a mutually vital role, why not simply call it HILL-ART? All the more so, as this emphasizes the landscape of the ancient city of Kyiv.