Exhibition: Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity
September 14 - December 14
The exhibition will be on display from 14 September to 14 December 2024. Ten art works from Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus and Turkey will be presented. It is curated by Kateryna Badianova, Susanna Gyulamiryan and Anna Karpenko and is part of the Revolutionary Festival for Change 2024, which will take place in Leipzig from 3 to 10 October 2024.
A co-operation project with HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art
About the exhibition
Bodies, as individuals and collectives, remain connected to the landscapes they have experienced as their home, even after the people have disappeared and the landscapes have been devastated. The wounding of one entails the wounding of others. Their surface may be physical, but underneath their connection has been woven from the experience of everyday practices, established infrastructures, learnt languages, identities and a sense of security. When this connection is torn apart – by war, the displacement of minorities, forced migration and the deprivation of self-determination – threshold corridors open up. They are places of refuge and survival for amputated memories, prophetic symbols and omens that oppose a self-proclaimed truth of sovereign power. However, the cracks also harbour attempts to reconstruct fragments of history and in doing so must fall back on languages that have become obsolete. Artistic gestures deal with this lack and emptiness. They put the fragments of the present
Exhibition with: Nazik Armenakyan (AM), Emrah Gökdemir (TR/DE), Armine Hovhannisyan (AM), Tatsiana Karpachova (BY/GE), Oksana Kazmina in Zusammenarbeit mit /in cooperation with Freefilmers Uliana Bychenkova (UA), Piruza Khalapyan (AM), Kateryna Lysovenko (UA/AT), Denys Pankratov (UA), Aliaxey Talstou (BY/DE), Teta Tsybulnyk / ruїns collective (UA)
Curated by: Kateryna Badianova (UA), Susanna Gyulamiryan (AM), Anna Karpenko (BY/DE)
Guided tour with artists and curators: Sun, 15 September 2024, 2 pm / Fri, 4 Oktober 2024, 2 pm
Image above: Plume of smoke rising into the sky. Martakert region. November 2020. Nazik Armenakyan, from the project “When the house burns down”
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