Statement From The Ukrainian Pavilion Team At The 2022 Venice Biennale
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the curators of the Ukrainian pavilion and artist Pavlo Makov released the following statement: Dear friends, colleagues and art community. The curators of the pavilion as well as the artist Pavlo Makov have received many incoming inquiries from the press and colleagues. We would...
Pointing Fingers: Russian Artists in Times of War
These days, I find it very difficult for me to focus on my own research, where I embrace critical feminist approaches. It is exactly the feminist perspective that hinders me from becoming vocal again. I feel like I, as a Russian feminist artist, have a position of privilege and...
Freedom versus freedom: from late sovietness to post-ness and back again*
Self-construed heterodox consciousness writes the years preceding the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into the story of freedom that was reached through the pain and agony of history – individual powerlessness and suffering against the violence of the system; this historical juncture gave rise to the...