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