MARTA VOLKOVA &
SLAVA SHEVELENKO
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2026

Set the Stage

Exhibition view, Exhibition space 38cc, Delft.

Detail, ink and acrylic on paper on polystyrene foam, height 75 cm.

Detail.

Fragment of exhibition.

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Exhibition view, Exhibition space 38CC, Delft.

Detail, ink and acrylic on paper on polystyrene foam, height 90 cm.

Detail, ink and acrylic on paper on polystyrene foam, height 75 cm.

Detail.

Fragment of exhibition.

In 2025, we began a new series of objects. As in our previous museum projects, we continue to tell stories through these works. This time, however, they take the form of three-dimensional vase-like objects. The form refers to the Greco-Roman tradition, which served as the starting point for the entire series.

Drawn stories - or rather, theatrical plays - unfold across the rounded surfaces of the objects. As one would expect, each “play” has its own cast of characters. What happens to these characters, however, is left to the viewer’s own interpretation.

Drawings made at different times and arranged in a single line along the walls, together with stacks of books from our own bookshelves beneath each vase, form the “breeding ground” from which these objects have emerged.

Taken together, all these elements convey our sense of today’s reality, a feeling that we are living inside some kind of theatrical play or performance.