Nikita Kadan’s “A New Integrity” has just opened at Pavilion 13 in Kyiv. Supported by RIBBON International, it is a multidisciplinary project that brings together sculpture, sound design, theater and oral history to consider the way in which trauma reshapes personal integrity.

At the center of the installation, kinetic sculptures assembled from prosthetic limbs operate like a theater of automatons or temporary avatars for their human users. They perform slow, repetitive movements that follow the rhythms of rehabilitation : repetition, endurance, frustration and adjustment. Nearby, a pair of prosthetic legs runs continuously in mid-air. Suspended in an endless present, their relentless motion reflects the ongoing labour of regaining physical and emotional integrity after injury, while also offering a close view of the prosthetic body’s athletic potential.