Haiti (Republic of)

Yelena’s Garden 2025–2026 is an installation where painting, moving image and interaction redefine the visible and the invisible. Composed of canvases, a double-sided panel, a glass sphere and a video, it follows an open hexagonal structure suggesting a relational mental geometry. The installation rejects fixed viewpoints, inviting the audience to generate ever-changing configurations.

The rectangular canvases, dedicated to the phases of sunset, evoke a phenomenological and everyday dimension, while the circular canvases, inspired by cosmic phenomena, open onto a more abstract and speculative imaginary. Between the micro-event of earthly experience and the vastness of the cosmos, a perceptual threshold emerges that runs through the entire installation.

Public interaction finds in the central panel a point of temporary recomposition of the images, while the glass sphere alters the perception of space, suggesting the relativity of every point of view. The video, inspired by the principles of Loop Quantum Gravity, introduces a non-linear temporal dimension that enters into dialogue with the materiality of painting. The “garden” evoked by the title thus becomes a mental space of care, transformation, and growth, to be inhabited through experience.