City with Independence Square 2021

Editor: This is Pavlo Makov's "City with Independence Square" from 2021, a graphite drawing on paper. There's this matrix of architectural forms and strange connecting lines, and that splash of color—it feels both futuristic and deeply unsettling. What’s your read on this, what jumps out at you? Curator: Unsettling, yes! It resonates with me, too. It's like a blueprint for a city that can only exist in a dream or a collective memory, the graphite adding a layer of almost ghostly fragility. And those "connecting lines"... they feel like conduits of thought, energy, perhaps even control? Think of Borges and his labyrinthine libraries. Do you get a sense of something both deeply ordered and chaotic here? Editor: Absolutely! I see order, almost a mathematical precision, but then those quirky little images around the edges—a building in disrepair—hint at something crumbling, some forgotten histories? Curator: Beautifully put! It is Makov’s game. It almost mocks the rigidity, the potential for urban spaces to become these detached, dehumanizing grids. He's making a very powerful statement, wouldn't you say, about what independence really *means* in a cityscape that can often feel... anonymous? Almost as if you are forced to navigate an endless chess board? Editor: That really resonates. The name of the piece, "City with Independence Square", it’s dripping with irony, then? The reality of ‘Independence’ isn’t exactly as ordered and clean-cut as we may imagine? Curator: Precisely! Maybe it shows that beneath the surface there lies not just memory, or physical material, but real tangible events which can change a society entirely. The drawing hints at a deeper question; How are places charged? Editor: That's fascinating. I hadn’t thought about it that way initially. It seemed abstract, now I realize, the artwork tells many layers. Curator: Indeed, what seemed distant is deeply personal, that’s a key strength of Makov’s approach, isn’t it? And also an attribute for us all to develop.