PROJECT: “Little stories”
CURATOR: Nadiyka Pereviznyk
DATE: October 5-18, 2009
MUSEUM: National Toy Museum (Kyiv)

Contemporary art is considered to be incomprehensible for many people, and especially children. However, contemporary art draws strongly from its surrounding influences, such as society, technology and science, and is therefore an important part of social process. This project was designed to acquaint children with art beyond the “classical” meaning which the soviet system of education had enforced in the past.

The toy museum has a space dedicated to showing the story of the toy as a cultural phenomenon. It is here that the exhibition of “alternative” toys now also temporarily appears. These toys are unique and unconventional, as they are constructed from household materials and factory toys. They are an expression of the author's concerns relating to a modern child's perception of the world and the influence of mass-produced modern toys.

The project also aims to draw children's and parents' attention to the way that toys, games and fantasy are not finding a place in today's world of mobile phones, computers and other modern toys.