Immersive Art of Oseredok
Immersive animation meets Ukrainian-Canadian art: a new way to experience the collection of Oseredok, Canada's leading institution of Ukrainian culture.
Immersive Art of Oseredok was developed in collaboration with Kostyuk Productions. Immersive visuals were produced by RocknLight and directed by Tais Poda. Invited to create an immersive experience around Oseredok's permanent art collection, RocknLight's design team animated works by Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian artists, transforming paintings into large-scale living projections.
Founded in Winnipeg in 1944, Oseredok — the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre — holds one of the most significant collections of Ukrainian art in North America: over 900 works spanning lithographs, oils, acrylics, and sculptures by Ukrainian, Ukrainian-Canadian, and Ukrainian-American artists across the latter half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition drew from across Oseredok's collections: documentary photographs from the Boberskyj archive, lithographs, drawings, and even the celebrated pysanka collection - all found their place within the immersive scenes. At the heart of the show, however, were the watercolours and oil paintings of William Kurelek, Christina Senkiv, Peter Shostak, Dmytro Stryjek, and others. RocknLight's design team brought the paintings to life through contemporary animation techniques and visual effects, allowing the imagery of each work to move, breathe, and expand beyond the canvas.
The result was an exhibition that offered audiences an entirely new encounter with an Oseredok collection transformed by immersive technology into an experience as vivid as the Ukrainian culture it represents.
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