(Im)Possibility of Return · Two-Artist Exhibition exploring displacement, memory, and return.

HI5 presents works by Sofiia Holubeva and Viktoriia Rozentsveih. The image of a moment that has already taken place remains accessible in different ways — depending on whether it is possible to return to it.

Sofiia Holubeva works with the landscape of the Odesa region — a space that remains physically accessible, yet is undergoing irreversible change. Regular departures from and returns to Odesa create a temporal distance through which familiar surroundings appear displaced and no longer coincide with the image preserved in memory. Return here does not restore sameness, but instead reveals the rupture between experience, memory, and present reality.

In her works, the artist also turns toward the future, giving it the form of documentary testimony — as if it had already occurred. This gesture shifts the idea of the future from the realm of speculation into that of presence, making it more tangible and open to collective reflection.

Viktoriia Rozentsveih draws on her personal photo archives and visual materials from the Kherson region — places to which physical return has become impossible. Access exists exclusively through the image: through the ways memory preserves, reconstructs, and transforms what can no longer be verified through direct experience. Here, the image does not document but substitutes: it assumes the function of place while remaining an unstable and unreliable carrier.

In their practices, landscape, domesticity, and the everyday are inseparable — all are forms of rootedness, shaping one’s sense of stability and belonging. The exhibition unfolds within this zone of tension — between presence and absence, between return and its impossibility, between memory as a source of grounding and memory as a process of continual transformation.