A velvet-lined vitrine holds wood and mixed natural materials, a painted torso is seen from below the waterline, and a wooden pole stands in a corner fitted with an electronic motor.
Two large paintings, a charred wood relief, a pair of cast fiberglass forms and a foam relief mounted on the ceiling complete the show. Below, the exhibition text on what changes when we return to an object.
Objects are gathered, named, and given their places. A familiar order emerges, one in which it is possible to linger and attend to what might otherwise pass unnoticed.
This is part of what draws Yasy Bachurina to museums: not everything has disappeared; some things can still be returned to.
But returning does not necessarily confirm a first impression. A thing may remain unchanged while the encounter with it shifts.
Here, recognition is not a conclusion. A familiar form may offer a first name, but not necessarily the last. A definition can remain accurate even after it has ceased to be sufficient. Between what has already been recognized and what recognition does not fully contain, the object remains open to another encounter.
Preservation always involves a decision: what to keep, how to name it, where to place it, what to protect it from. Yet preserving a thing is not the same as preserving a single way of understanding it. Perhaps this is precisely what makes return possible.
The paintings and objects do not resolve into a reconstructed period or a single narrative. They remain alongside one another, retaining their differences without demanding final coherence.
Recognition does not bring our relationship with a thing to an end.
About the Artist
Yasy Bachurina
Yasy Bachurina works across painting and sculptural objects, reworking archaeological artefacts, sculpture and architecture. She studied at the Moscow Academic College of Arts and showed solo at The Charoen Art Gallery in Bangkok in 2024. Instagram
About the Curator
ArtCuratorialNomads
ArtCuratorialNomads is a curatorial initiative that guides early-career artists and organises cross-regional exchanges, and co-presented the 2025 group show Handful of Dust at Studiya with Yasy Bachurina among the artists. Website · Instagram
About the Location
Studiya, Seoul
Studiya is an international, experimental artist collective and independent art space founded in Seoul in 2023, working through exhibitions, co-curation and research. Website · Instagram
About Catapult Contemporary
This is an exhibition review published by Catapult Contemporary, an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. catapult-platform.art ·
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