We Are the Street We Forgot
2025
The Post Office — Branch 1233, residential area Banishora Neighbourhood, 112A "Opalchenska" Street
We Are the Street We Forgot is a fantastic walk through urban spaces where memory, expectation and longing exist as invisible layers within the body of the city.
“We Are the Street We Forgot” by artist Iva Ivanova is an imagined walk through urban spaces where memory, anticipation, and longing exist as invisible layers within the body of the city.
Within this structured yet organic experience, participants encounter a utopian notion of nostalgia: an emotional landscape shaped by what never came to be, by absence, and by transience. The project explores how architecture and urban environments preserve personal and collective memories—of encounters, partings, farewells, and hopes. Spaces stripped of intimacy by the pace of everyday life are transformed through the lens of love, melancholy, and imagination. Rather than moving literally through the city, participants journey through associations, images, and emotional states where the intimate and the public converge. An abstraction that we attempt to grasp in a tangible way.
Meeting point: Post Office Branch 1233, Banishora district, 112A Opalchenska Street (address here).
The post office serves as the point of departure—a place marked by absent intimacy, an archive of unspoken words, and a repository of waiting and expectation.
Iva Ivanova is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of costume design and painting. Her practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of personal narratives and emotions as tools for creative expression. Spanning theatre, film, and visual arts, her work moves fluidly across disciplines while remaining grounded in an interest in memory, intimacy, and lived experience. In 2016, she graduated in Stage Design from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AKBILD Wien), where she studied under Anna Viebrock.
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Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to individually or in a group during a walk through the city