Kadyrova’s debut in public space was in summer 2008, under the aegis of the EIDOS Foundation’s “City – Territory of Art” – a program for bringing artwork into the public sphere. Kadyrova was invited to use a site in front of a Kyiv bank that had agreed to sponsor a sculptural project aimed at beautifying the adjacent territory. This project became the first in the series Calculation, which ironically illustrates the consequences of the thoughtless pursuit of economic growth. In the urban environment, the crumbling diagrams and runaway graphs acquired hypertrophied proportions, metaphorically reflecting the real magnitude of the economic crisis. 

Formally, as sculptures, the Bench-graphs recall the minimalist compositions of Robert Morris and other practitioners of minimalism from the 1960s. The simple beams of the “graphs,” faced with ceramic tile in primary colors, take the form of the letter “L” – the sculptural form that became iconic for Morris.