Common Secret continues my research on intersubjectivity, one of the main highlights of phenomenological philosophy. In the video I return to the question of how can one comprehend the other’s subjective experience of the world.

As a part of a conceptual frame I use the reminiscence of a “Secret” game from my childhood,typically played in post-soviet countries. As many Belarusian children, I also made so-called secrets - hidden holes containing small founded “treasures”, buried in the soil and covered with glass. The ritual was performed in solitude - the purpose was for nobody to discover your secret, its transparency nevertheless implying an inbuilt intent to be revealed. This game for me plays the role of a key that opens up the number of essential themes for my research. Among the others: the idea of appresentation, dialectic of public and private, external and internal, interaction of an individual and a group.

Reconstruction of those publicly visible secrets interplays in my work with a reminder of common knowledge we tend to take for granted: we can never see into another person's mind, even of the closest one. By recollecting a game of the olden days, I reflect upon the paradoxical feature of human nature: the desire to both share and preserve, expose and hide. Given today's confused world, this work becomes a search for the transparency and access to the other.

Exhibitions and screenings:

2024 Projection. Projection Night during The International photographic symposium Nida. Meeting Photography. Nida Art Colony, 2024, Nida, Lithuania.

2023 Projection as a part of artist talk during the residency Who’s voices are being heard?, Wrocław, Poland.

2022 As a part of installation (screen, head phones, earth). Group exhibition “When The Sun Is Low - The Shadows Are Long”, cur. Anna Karpenko. Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), Leipzig, Germany.

2022 As a part of installation (screen, head phones, earth). Group exhibition “When The Sun Is Low - The Shadows Are Long”, cur. Anna Karpenko. Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.

2021 Projection. Group exhibition. Galleri Bak Fasaden, Skåtøy, Norway.

2021 Projection. Group exhibition “A Collection of Secrets”, org. by ARKIVET. MJW, München, Germany.

2021 Screen. Group exhibition “A Collection of Secrets”, org. by ARKIVET. Riutta Gallery, Lapeenranta, Finland.

2020 Group exhibition (digital) “A Collection of Secrets”, org. by ARKIVET. AJW, Athens, Greece.

2020 Projection. Group exhibition “ A Collection of Secrets”, org. by ARKIVET. CYAN galleri, Oslo, Norway.

Publications (paper):

2023 “When the Sun is Low the Shadows are Long”, ed. Anna Karpenko. Spector Books - Leipzig (pp. 93 - 94).

2021 “Current Obsession” magasin. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2020 KUNST Magasinet, 2020, Issue 3.

Selected digital publications:

2022 Jegens & Tevens, NL: https://jegensentevens.nl/2022/08/when-the-sun-is-low-the-shadows-are-long/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaxz55CmnX1WSK-uMgckIVXfRjpHUoPt4lLGupPxlqf_zzakWy8qnvWb1Y_aem_uv45SzHNI4UjFtMU0mBx3A

2021 Munich Jewellery Week, DE.

2020 Athens Jewellery Week, GR.