“My Life Is Ruins,” 2026

installation (glass, tin)
Created with the support of the MUHi 2026 competition; RIBBON International and Jam Factory Art Center (within the KEY WORK: Artistic Grants programme).

The artist’s works are united by the theme of destruction as part of the life cycle. Through this lens, she explores a range of subjects, including home, childhood, love, and the relationship between her inner emotional state and events in the external world.

The primary material Molokoiedova works with is broken glass. Shattered glass also functions as a carrier of visual language: its physical fragility and fragmentation, as well as the processes of collecting and reshaping it, refer to themes of ruin, disintegration, and transformation.

For the MUHi 2026 exhibition at Promprylad Art Center, the artist presents the installation My Life Is Ruins, which evokes the roof of a greenhouse. The central element of the work is a series of pseudo-stained-glass pieces made from broken glass and featuring rose motifs.

The first version of the project was realised as a site-specific installation in March 2026, when the artist integrated her floral stained-glass works into an abandoned greenhouse located on the grounds of a former municipal flower-growing facility in Zalizna Voda Park in Lviv.

Dedication:

This project is dedicated to all servicemen and servicewomen waiting for the war to end, to all women waiting for their loved ones to return home, to all children who have lost their childhood, and to all elderly people who are afraid of dying far from home.

This project is dedicated to people who cannot see a future, yet continue to live.

Daria Molokoiedova was born in 2001 in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. In 2023, she received a bachelor’s degree from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, majoring in Photography and Visual Practices. In 2022, she studied at the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Since 2023, she has lived and worked in Kyiv. She is a multimedia artist featured in the second edition of the Ukrainian section of Secondary Archive, as well as in the archival projects The Sky Is Open. Voices From Ukraine and Ukraine on Fire at the Small Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal. She was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 and is a recipient of the KEY WORK: RIBBON International × Jam Factory Art Center grant. She is also the founder of the interdisciplinary project about love, It’s Love, Darling. 

Photographer: Anton Sorochak