Proposition
Sasha Budayv (Я), MFA 2023, Painting
if we are to propose something – i wish this to be
long alienated weak shimmer –
(fail to recognize)
– piercing through the pile of all
that is me
weak and odd
that is inherited brought together rejected
that is loved or accepted or neglected ostracized tolerated
– i wish this weak – that is suppressed and which rupture is
unbearable –
get resolved
– the best i can feel perceive comprehend intuit-e
is this which coalesce with sort of making
sort of collective appreciation of facets where boundaries diffuse by osmosis
i hope
this new to have room for the weak that demands to be shared to be squandered
although its claim cannot be voiced or communicated
only lived through
in the gathering
sorrily nebulous obscure
i guess it is the
acceptance
of the tragedy
that requires to cease (secret) operations of
sorrows and anger and confusion
behind irony future tongue faith
in orders corinthian doric scythian teutonic grammatic logic aesthetic
it is more unbearable
here
where we observe
discontinuity severance abruption
of the membrane
–
even more terrifying
than what
piercing
through
it is then only weak
with no
big theory
bit epiphany
but the garden
to see
Sasha Budayv (Я)
Website: sashabudayv.com
Instagram: @sasha_budayv
Sasha Budayv is an artist and educator born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus. From 2004 through 2008 he studied painting at Minsk State Art College. From 2008 through 2014 – at Saint-Petersburg Academy of Art. Shortly after Academy Sasha’s involved in the experimental educational program of Chto Delat art group where he got introduced to the practices and theory of contemporary radical leftist art. Since Fall of 2014 till Fall of 2017 Sasha has participated in educational residencies in School of Engaged Art and School of a Young Artist ProArte in Saint-Petersburg. Throughout these years he exhibits his work in Russia, Belarus, Germany, France, Poland, Estonia and the UK. Most of his projects of this time focused on problems of the cultural/historical memory, procedures of meaning production and collective actions and self-organisation. In September 2018 Budayv moved to the US. In 2023 he earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Live and work in Philadelphia, PA