TELL THEM ABOUT BATTLES, METEORS, AND EGGPLANT CAVIAR
TOURING EXHIBITION
MAY - SEPTEMBER 2022
Stimultania Exhibition Space, Strasbourg, FR
JANUARY - MARCH 2023
Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Chartres de Bretagne, FR
Curated by Stimultania in collaboration with Le Centre Claude Cahun and Galerie le Carré d'Art.
7 UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
Alex Blanco, Maxim Dondyuk, Yana Kononova, Olga Kukush, Oksana Nevmerzhytska, Elena Subach, Daria Svertilova.
The artists tell of the paper parrots hung by the young people on the walls of the collective habitats of kyiv. They also tell about pregnancy and the loneliness of women. Hospitals that could melt like sugar Jesuses. The recipe for eggplant caviar in Odessa. Garlic, pepper, some peppers. The meteorite that the inhabitants await, crucifix in hand, in Chervonohrad. Naked bodies – so long forbidden. They tell the night, the sea and finally the snow which will soon be covered by the poetry of Lao Tseu.
TELL THEM ABOUT BATTLES, METEORS AND EGGPLANT CAVIAR
Exhibition presented at Stimultania, Strasbourg, from May 13 to September 17, 2022, at Carré d'Art, Center culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres-de-Bretagne, from January 20 to March 4, 2023, and at Center Claude Cahun, Nantes, from May to June 2023.
For several weeks, questions have been bothering us. What can we show of Ukrainian creation today? How do the artists view their previous series? How do these works resonate in a country at war? These questions were asked to the artists and accompany an exhibition of photographs taken before February 2022.