Lesia Vasylchenko works across a range of media including video, photography and installation. In her research-based practice, Vasylchenko explores encounters between visual cultures, media technologies and the politics of time.

She is a co-curator of the artist-run gallery space “Podium” and the founder of “STRUKTURA. Time”, a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice in visual arts, media archaeology, literature and philosophy. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv and a degree in Fine Arts from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

A large screen is filled with a glowing, pulsating, slowly changing sun. This video is composed from more than a thousand photographs of sunrises over Ukraine during the past 30 years. Using a ‘machine learning' process, an artificial intelligence program constructed the sequence from the artist’s collection of images. All of the sunrise photos were taken during the historically significant period from the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s to the present day. The title takes its name from a ‘tachyon’, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light.