Olga Drozd
"SENSITIVITY. MODERN UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHY "
Art Arsenal st. Lavrska, 10-12, Kyiv, 01010
Photography forces us to pay tribute to the transience. Its only constant is the sensitivity of the creator to what could be called the trembling of the world. It is this sensitivity that gives a photograph, otherwise essentially a technical image, its aesthetic and symbolic dimensions. This also preserves photography’s ability to be a medium that is extremely reflective, sensitive to changes in time, trends, technologies, and optics.
This exhibition project represents a plurality of methods used within the photographic medium in Ukraine during the last almost three decades. This chronological framing is not random—during this period, photography has become a self-sufficient form in the system of Ukrainian contemporary art. Now, it is important to review this path in its entirety and in detail, in order to reveal the overall picture.
Despite the fact that this exhibition covers a wide range of authors and phenomena, it does not employ an encyclopedic approach and its emphasis is not on chronology, but on the processes in the medium itself. This allows us to feel, and hopefully comprehend, time over a relatively short duration, using the optics of photography. And that is possible not only by immersing oneself in the context of history, which is full of events and transformations, but also by demonstrating different approaches to the photography itself, revealing the medium-specific collisions that occurred at that time.
The exhibition will be on display from July 29 to September 5, 2021.
Curators: Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov.
Artists:
Gera Artemova, Maksym Afanasyev, Anna Bekerska, Taras Bychko, Valentine Bo, Andrey Boyko, Mishka Bochkarev, Andrij Bojarov, Olena Bulygina, Anna Voitenko, Stas Volyazlovsky, Igor Gaidai, Oleksandr Glyadelov, Alena Grom, Maxim Dondyuk, Valeriia Dopirchuk, Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva, Olga Drozd, Yurko Dyachyshyn, Kyrylo Kovalenko, Viktor & Sergiy Kochetovy, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Sasha Kurmaz, Anastasiya Lazurenko, Jane Laptiy, Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Oleksandr Liapin, Victor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Valeriy Miloserdov, Borys Mykhailov, Yevgen Nikiforov, Rita Ostrovska, Evgeniy Pavlov, Mikhail Palinchak, Misha Pedan, Victoria Pidust, Polina Polikarpova, Viacheslav Poliakov, Roman Pyatkovka, Andriy Rachinskiy & Andriy Rachinskiy, Mykola Ridnyi, Arsen Savadov, Julia Savenko, Sergiy Solonsky, Yaroslav Solop, Dmytro Starusiev, Elena Subach, Mykola Trokh, Maryna Frolova, Nazar Furyk, Vasyl Tsagolov, Igor Chekachkov, Alexander Chekmenev, Illya Chichkan, Anton Shebetko, Ani Zur, Julie Poly, GORSAD, Join The Cool, SOSka group, Synchrodogs.