installations
PRICE-LESS
Maria Gvardeitseva explores official and individual memories of wars and traumatic events. She offers visitors to join a so-called memorial table as a space of transforming grief and sorrow, and a dialog with the past. What new taboos and what new minefields of memory will emerge?
5-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES
…There was no shortage of princes in the dragon kingdom who were a match for her. But now the girl knew to always make the choice herself. Always. No one ever deserves to be more important in your life than yourself. And happiness is when you make all the choices in your life yourself.
MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL
Is Maria Gvardeitseva’s heartbreaking journey to her true self, an intense sorrow delimiting her past from her future and a showcase of the price of freedom.
DRYGVA. BREATH IN, BREAT OUT
An installation that got to the final shortlist official selection for the Belarusian pavilion of Venice Biennale. A complex study of collective and personal identity though a metaphor of swamp - one of the most powerful symbols of Belarusian historical background.
IMAGINARY CARGO-200 JOURNEY
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The inhuman violence of what the Russian Federation calls "the special military operation" as well as the courage of the Ukrainians shocked humanity.
SPECIAL PROJECT FOR UNICEF
Through her special project for UNICEF in Belarus Maria creates a metaphorical try-walking-in my shoes metaphor in order to display the stories of the most vulnerable of us - children
PUZZLE TO PUZZLE
Through her installation the artist tries to raise the awareness of the social reality of the orphans and to collect funds dedicated to train 30 foster care volunteers - families who are willing to share their love and bring a true New Year Eve to orphan's lives.
NO HUGS AND KISSES
Maria brings together the whole palette of emotional changes that the humanity went through with the coronavirus pandemic. "What experiences have we discovered in ourselves, and which have passed unnoticed by the mind? It was important for me to "anchor" emotions and new habits of behaviour - and the installation appeared as a reflection, a reflection of these rapid social shifts ».
WITHOUT CANDIES
The installation points out the real child's need and the effective, involving way to help and bring some care to orphans' lives, different from the shallowness of the candy wrappers.
SOCIAL IMMORTALITY
An immersive installation will eagerly question the "future of the death" and how the fundamental notion of death will evolve in the social context of technocratic society.