Volt Agapeyev
is a Kyiv-based multidisciplinary artist.
Volt Agapeyev (born in 1989, Ternopil, Ukraine) graduated from Ternopil Institute of Arts in 2012. In 2016 he got another degree in graphic design from the School of Visual Communication. Volt mostly works with drawings, murals & mixed-media art. He lives and works in Kyiv.
Works
“Asemic Translation”
All works of the project were created together with Olena Turyanska. While working on the project, the artists actively used the principle of the “exquisite corpse” and techniques of asemic writing.
“Bioglyph Project”
The Bioglyph project is an attempt to give form to the sounds that we encounter in nature. The sculptures use a speculative design that rejects the presence of equalizers and other usual visualization methods. The main materials used in the piece are found objects from the
environment. The piece was inspired by William Burroughs when he said: “since 1971 my main theory is that the Word is literally a virus and it hasn’t yet been recognized as such because it has reached a state of stable symbiosis with the human carrier.”
The project is ongoing, involving a series of works placed in different environments and using various materials.
“Deathtopia”
Dymchuk Gallery, 2019
Mixed media
The project “Deathtopia” explores the specific role that death plays in our present. It plays on the dissonance between what is real and what is imaginary. In the orbit of everyday life, there are wars, conflicts, clericalism, epidemics and cataclysms. In the 21st century, we
have transformed dance macabre into rave macabre and found new broadcast platforms.
Our culture tries to eliminate death as much as possible from everyday life. But the illusory shield, made of cryonics, a digitizatilized consciousness, gerontology and other quasi-biological practices, cannot protect us from the arrows of eternity. We need to stop our naive
denial and recognize the impossibility of utopia with cold calm.
“Reconkiska”
Reconkiska is a soft form of the word “Reconquista.” The secularisation of Ukrainian society is rather amorphous. Because of that, the process of churches invading public space is unregulated. This piece of art emphasises the expansiveness and absurdity of this activity. It was reproduced in a reduced form.
The project was implemented in a collaboration with Oleg Suslenko and Olena Klochko.
