"Domicile" is an art book by two Kharkiv artists, poet Serhiy Zhadan and artist Pavlo Makov, which was an attempt to review the last 27 years of presence in Kharkiv through the lens of their own works. Two views, two generations, two different artistic languages united by a commonplace. The book contains graphic works and poems that were selected by Pavlo Makov and Serhiy Zhadan independently of each other, directly during the creation of the art book.
The publication has a reverse chronology, and the works do not comment on each other: the poems do not describe the graphic works, and the graphic works do not illustrate the poems. This organizing principle turns the reader/viewer into a third participant in the process of discovering common meanings: it is the one who reads the book as an open text — moving from text to text through images and reading poems between graphic works — who will be able to find their own third meaning in two lines.
The publication was implemented thanks to donors on the crowdfunding platform "Spilnokosht", as well as with the support of the European Union and the International Renaissance Fund within the framework of the EU4USociety joint initiative. The material reflects the position of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the position of the International Renaissance Foundation and the European Union.
