Sofiia Kozlova
‘Horizon Lines’, 2025, photo collage, 20 х 42.2 х 22.2 cm
Sofiia works with installation, performance and stop-motion animation. Her practice focuses on questions of local identity and social bonds, evoked by the urban environment. In exploring these themes, she employs performance as a means of interacting with different social groups and of engaging communities.
Since 2022, in her artistic projects, Sofiia has reflected on her own experience as a volunteer, particularly on weaving camouflage nets. As a volunteer, Sofiia’s role includes selecting the colours of fabric for the nets, based on photographs of terrain sent by the military. The materials for the nets often carry stories—a uniform of a fallen soldier passed on by his comrades or children’s worn-out clothes brought in by parents. It is essential to ensure that the camouflage nets’ colours correspond as closely as possible to the frontline landscape. In ‘Horizon Lines’, textile ‘horizons’ transform into actual horizons of the fields of de-occupied Kherson Oblast, the slag heaps of Donetsk Oblast and the outskirts of liberated Kharkiv Oblast.
The photograph from Donetsk Oblast was taken by Sofiia’s late friend, Vladyslav ‘Frenchie’ Kalan (22 June 2001–28 June 2025). Always in the ranks.
