ONENESS

Author: Katsiaryna Sheliahovich.

Sound Design: Gabriele Amari Mellia.

Duration: 1:27 min Year: 2026.

Medium: Digital video 1920×1068.

(video reimagines Belarusian ornament through sculptural animation)

The video work explores the transformation of Belarusian ornament through the language of sculptural animation. Bone, sand, gel, and synthetic textures continuously flow into one another, forming a closed cycle of transformation with no fixed beginning or end.

The ornament serves as a source of form and movement. The work continues the tradition of ornament within a new visual system, preserving its connection to the original source.

The title Oneness/Усёхвасць is a word coined by the artist, formed from the Belarusian "усё" (all/everything) and the root "хапіць/хваціць" (to encompass), combined with the suffix of an abstract noun, "-асць" - comparable to how English forms abstract nouns with "-ness" (as in all-encompassingness, though this remains a coined rather than standard term). It expresses the principle of interconnectedness among forms, related to the idea of oneness: each element contains the whole within itself and passes into the next state as part of a shared, ongoing process.

Posted on Platform B of Musik der Jahrhunderte (DE)