Stardust №2. Process

Performative sculpture installation «Stardust №2» was created in 2021 especially for the pavilion of Crimea Summit, organized by Crimea Platform. From December 1, 2021, all 5 life-sized concrete sculptures-copies of Maria Kulikovska's body, are installed on the territory of the main office of the Crimea Platform, located in Kyiv, Ukraine. The installation «Stardust №2» became the continuation of the «Stardust» project, presented in 2019 during the «Amazing Stories of Crimea» exhibition in Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine, for the first time.

This huge installation is an artist's loose interpretation of the map of the Kerch Peninsula (125 sqm of the peninsula model). The five life-sized figures were cast from the Kulikovska's body and were created by the same materials as soil of the metaphorical landscape of the installation: metal, wood, minerals, stone dust, sand, chamotte, natural stone pigments, iron oxides, sea salt and special supplements, various types of granite dust, cement and soil.