NARTALKA & ALISON KLYMCHUK
SING ME TO SLEEP
About the project
Site-specific intervention made of engraving, pencil crayon, industry marker and oil paint on drywall.
How many casualties have to occur until the number becomes too abstract to comprehend, too heavy to feel? As statistics measure, at times inaccurate or uncounted for, reality fades into senselessness. Alison Klymchuk encodes «home» through numerical symbols of the house (lost), ladder (escape), roof (protection), all composed with the music note (joy). Nartalka’s imagery evokes hierarchal powers and our battle against them, while holding onto an instinct for hope within conflicts that attempt to erase our humanity.
About the artist
Nartalka: Berlin-based Canadian-Polish. Growing up in a working-class industrial city and now living in Berlin, I feel the psychological stress of how politics and infrastructures, both built and destroyed, affect you and your community both here and afar. Art is my therapeutic language in a world of political psychosis.

Alison Klymchuk is a Ukrainian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, working primarily in sculptural assemblage, illustration and semiotics to unearth urban methodologies. Her practice explores the material and lived memory of home amid cycles of construction and destruction.