“The Kingdom of Right and Wrong Choices”
Fedir Khorkov (UA)
14/08- 19/09/2026
The Gift was bestowed on the King by Malice and Grace.
For him and only to become a devotee without a choice,
So the Gift would never lose its innocence
To the Choice, whatever it shall be.
The calamity that holds us together is the tension of the choices we must make.
Inconsistency and a massive quantity of thoughts and opinions are pouring into us, trying to produce simultaneous fear and exaltation, despair and hope, anxiety and happiness as a matter to be consumed and reproduced. A cycle that seems without end.
But what is the King without a ruling hand?
Without despise or glory, to judge
As Hope would share his fate
To everlast so patiently.
This tale has emerged from caring intentions, as evil deeds come from good thoughts. The Kingdom exists temporarily, repeating itself as a virtual manifestation. It’s evaluating one’s choices – the appropriateness/suitableness of which usually cannot be considered presently, but rather when the result of the process has already taken place in physical reality.
The Gift is soft and gentle,
In what newborn and stillborn are alike.
A flesh was taken by it from the choices
That gruesome Beast which tears up humans' minds.
Meanwhile, the Beast is already at our doorstep, tearing apart our beliefs and lives. Through algorithmic insanity, irrelevant mumbling and extreme screams from the screens.
So I wish you a pleasant voyage to the Kingdom of Right and Wrong Choices – for what it’s worth.
“History itself becomes a monster: defeaturing, self-deconstructive, always in danger of exposing the sutures that bind its disparate elements into a single, unnatural body /.../”
– J.J. Cohen in Monster Theory (Seven Theses).
Fedir Khorkov is a visual artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. He received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Department of Graphic Arts at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2022.
His artistic practice explores the visualisation of unconscious psychological states, emotions, and experiences that resist language. Working through painting and drawing, he investigates the limits of representation, focusing on forms of fear, horror, and psychological unease. His work reflects on traumatic experiences shaped by the non-acceptance of sexual identity, normative conceptions of mental health, psychological warfare (PSYOP), violence, and atrocity, examining how these forces imprint themselves on both individual and collective consciousness.
Alongside his studies at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (2018–2022), Fedir completed the Contemporary Art Course at Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2019–2020) and studied Illustration at PROJECTOR Creative & Tech Online Institute (2017–2018).
Text: Fedir Khorkov
Graphic design: Elīna Salnāja
Supported by: VKKF
Fedir Khorkov (UA)
14/08- 19/09/2026
The Gift was bestowed on the King by Malice and Grace.
For him and only to become a devotee without a choice,
So the Gift would never lose its innocence
To the Choice, whatever it shall be.
The calamity that holds us together is the tension of the choices we must make.
Inconsistency and a massive quantity of thoughts and opinions are pouring into us, trying to produce simultaneous fear and exaltation, despair and hope, anxiety and happiness as a matter to be consumed and reproduced. A cycle that seems without end.
But what is the King without a ruling hand?
Without despise or glory, to judge
As Hope would share his fate
To everlast so patiently.
This tale has emerged from caring intentions, as evil deeds come from good thoughts. The Kingdom exists temporarily, repeating itself as a virtual manifestation. It’s evaluating one’s choices – the appropriateness/suitableness of which usually cannot be considered presently, but rather when the result of the process has already taken place in physical reality.
The Gift is soft and gentle,
In what newborn and stillborn are alike.
A flesh was taken by it from the choices
That gruesome Beast which tears up humans' minds.
Meanwhile, the Beast is already at our doorstep, tearing apart our beliefs and lives. Through algorithmic insanity, irrelevant mumbling and extreme screams from the screens.
So I wish you a pleasant voyage to the Kingdom of Right and Wrong Choices – for what it’s worth.
“History itself becomes a monster: defeaturing, self-deconstructive, always in danger of exposing the sutures that bind its disparate elements into a single, unnatural body /.../”
– J.J. Cohen in Monster Theory (Seven Theses).
Fedir Khorkov is a visual artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. He received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Department of Graphic Arts at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2022.
His artistic practice explores the visualisation of unconscious psychological states, emotions, and experiences that resist language. Working through painting and drawing, he investigates the limits of representation, focusing on forms of fear, horror, and psychological unease. His work reflects on traumatic experiences shaped by the non-acceptance of sexual identity, normative conceptions of mental health, psychological warfare (PSYOP), violence, and atrocity, examining how these forces imprint themselves on both individual and collective consciousness.
Alongside his studies at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (2018–2022), Fedir completed the Contemporary Art Course at Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2019–2020) and studied Illustration at PROJECTOR Creative & Tech Online Institute (2017–2018).
Text: Fedir Khorkov
Graphic design: Elīna Salnāja
Supported by: VKKF