Atlas of Depths uses language as both an institutional tool and a means of resistance. This intervention traces linguistic displacements and acts of reclamation, offering a visual counterpoint to dominant narratives. How does language shape institutional memory? And can these spaces be reclaimed through alternative linguistic structures?

Karabinovych's collages juxtapose found images, themselves, exiled, forgotten, existing in oblivion, and often moving between Russian and other tongues. This tactile process involves cutting, moistening, and reconstructing paper and images in ways that preserve their historical dust while creating new meanings – a methodology.

The collages function like words in a rearranged sentence, pushing against the traditional narrative embodied by the portraits in the meeting room, while opening space for reimagining institutional history. Karabinovych’s work questions not only which specific historical figures are commemorated, but also how institutional memory itself is constructed, maintained, and potentially redefined.