Kyiv, Ukraine, 1995

Kobylianski works with materials commonly associated with construction, including mineral dust, mortar slurries, pigments, and sand applied to raw fabric, with the image formed through the imprinted residue after removal.

His practice is process-driven and subtractive. He establishes conditions in which materials cure, settle, and imprint. What remains is not depiction, but evidence that something has occurred.

Applied directly by hand, the process remains open-ended. Form emerges only after the material has set, as its behavior determines how trace becomes embedded in the surface. Individual surfaces are often stitched together, assembling separate fragments into a single work.

Removed from their functional role, these materials shift from utility to memory. Positioned between object and surface, presence and absence, the work invites slow looking, and operates as a physical record rather than an image.