Oksana Kurchanova

Floor Plan

In February 2022, I left Kyiv when the war broke out. Over the following year, I moved from one temporary home to another — staying a week in some places, a month or two in others. In my memory, these rooms began to overlap, forming a generalized image of my new Home and of a new reality as a whole.

This experience inspired the series Floor Plan. Photographs of the temporary spaces I inhabited became building blocks for a new, imagined Home. Fragments from those interiors are assembled into images titled Bedroom, Children’s Room, Kitchen, and more. Together, they form a metaphorical floor plan of the apartment I left behind in February 2022.

The oversaturated colors reflect heightened emotions and the surreal atmosphere of those months.

Each collage carries a dual title:
Landscape / Burning
Bedroom / Morning of February 24th
Children’s Room / First Missile Attack
Bathroom / Red (Nuclear) Button
Corridor / Under-the-Carpet Games
Kitchen / “Fire!” from Gazprom
Guest Room / Furnace of War

About the Artist

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Oksana Kurchanova is Ukrainian photographer based in Kyiv. She graduated from Kharkiv National University of Arts in 2001 as a musicologist. In 2005 she completed a PhD in musicology. Kurchanova has been engaged in photography since 2009. She is a member of the National society of Photo artists of Ukraine (2013) and Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization (2024). Kurchanova’s art interests include staged photography, digital collage, lomography, textile art.