The practice of social interaction
2022-present
The essence of Khomenko's practice is to experiment with fabrics, which the artist performs together with a group of collaborators. Together with them, the artist examines and creates new cuts and color combinations. The aesthetics of the final objects arise spontaneously, but their implementation is based on technological precision. Khomenko has developed her own method of crushing and compressing materials, which goes beyond regular upcycling.
On 25 February 2022, i.e. the second day of the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, Yasia Khomenko fled from Kyiv to Ivano-Frankivsk. On her way she saw countless piles of clothes – humanitarian aid collected by locals. At the same time sharing was the only method of obtaining the most necessary things. These personal experiences and observations had a great impact on Khomenko's future work. Therefore sharing and building relationships lies in the core of her current artistic practice. She travels around the world and collaborates with the local communities. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own clothes to Yasia’s workshop, cut them and make canvases for further compression made by the art personally with her own technology.
Khomenko refers both to the relational aesthetics defined by Nicolas Bourriaud and to her own knowledge of industrial production. Based on this, she came up with a model of a new factory, where value of the things that are made is a relative concept, and their aesthetics is a result of a spontaneous, creative impulse.
The main goal of artist's practice is to develop and promote ideas which aim to change the problematic ways of production in the fashion industry. Even though XOMENKO started as a fashion brand, Yasia criticizes the industry and offers some alternative models with a social and collaborative approach.
ANTWERPEN
LVIV
THE NETHERLANDS
DREASEN
WARSAW