A counterform is a form that, by virtue of hitherto lacking some determinate volume or spatiotemporal realization, still exists in the liminal space between the ideal and the real. Consequently, the basic plastic material used by Nazar Bilyk in this series is the viewer’s very imagination. The artist creates an opportunity for us to see what immediately precedes perceptual experience: namely, the imagination of potential form, free from the binary oppositions and value judgments we make after seeing it... This freedom, however, turns out to be an illusion.

Hinting at the future image, Nazar Bilyk encourages the viewer to extract it from her imagination. He reveals the need for the counterform as a reference point; arguing that behind any form a counterform always appears, and vice versa.