June 12, 2026–August 8, 2026

Between Roots and Heaven: Olena Mosiyevych

Between Roots and Heaven confronts the ongoing reality of war experienced from a distance, navigating the complexities of identity within displaced cultural contexts. Born from Mosiyevych’s migration from Ukraine to the United States, these works trace fractured histories and familial dispersion, forming structures of belonging across distance.

The landscape of the American Midwest becomes a site of re-rooting, where trees embody both loss and renewal. Through precise, pulsating lines and recurring motifs of roots and branches, the works transform forest landscapes and domestic objects into quiet witnesses of memory. Encircled by fields of gold and platinum, and enveloped in deep blue tones, they open a space where the present remains in dialogue with both past and future, expressing a life lived between homelands, histories, and landscapes.

Building upon Mosiyevych’s previous presentation at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, Between Roots and Heaven creates an intermediate symbolic space where multiple temporal and emotional registers coexist, reflecting on how cultural memory encounters a new horizon.