Olena Bulygina, b. 1986 Stakhaniv, Luhansk region. Now lives and works in London and Kyiv. A member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (UPHA).

Working in a variety of visual media, Olena created a number of widely exhibited photographs, and award-winning multimedia projects generally working in medium format film. Much of Olena’s work focuses on memory distortion and standards in collective consciousness .

##Stasis## Stasis is a series taken in 2009-2010 in Stakhaniv (now Kadiivka), Luhansk Region. The focus of Stasis is not only anachronism. The past and present mixed in weird way, just like social consciousness – 70 years of USSR and two decades of independence. There are artificial cheap flowers, TV sets, plush curtains and “winter garden” near old soviet symbols of hammer and sickle.

In 2014 it was occupied by Russia.