Land(e)scapes
Recognizing Fragmentarity
The exhibition presents ten art works from Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus and Turkey from 14 September to 14 December 2024. Curated by Kateryna Badianova, Susanna Gyulamiryan and Anna Karpenko, it is shown as part of the Revolutionale Festival for Change 2024.
Image: Piruza Khalapyan, [Consequences of the war] surrounding areas of Shushi, 2020, aus dem Projekt: Unaddressed [fragmented] memory
Artists
Nazik Armenakyan
Emrah Gökdemir
Armine Hovhannisyan
Tatsiana Karpachova
Oksana Kazmina
Piruza Khalapyan
Kateryna Lysovenko
Denis Pankratov
liaxey Tastou
Teta Tsybulnyk (ruїns collective)
Curators
Kateryna Badianova
Susanna Gyulamiryan
Anna Karpenko
Concept
Bodies, individual and collective, remain connected to the landscapes they have experienced as their homes, even after people leave or the landscapes are destroyed. The injury of one entails the wounding of the other. Their surfaces may be physical, but underneath their connection is woven from the experience of everyday practices, grown infrastructures, learned languages, identities and feelings of security. If this connection is severed—through war, the expulsion of minorities, forced migration, or the loss of self-determination—liminal corridors open up. These are places of refuge and survival for amputated memories, prophetic symbols and omens that oppose a self-appointed truth of sovereign power. But the cracks also house attempts to reconstruct fragments of history, and in doing so must rely on languages that have become obsolete. Artistic gestures address this lack and emptiness, assembling the fragments of present experience.
The exhibition is shown in cooperation with Halle 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst.
Impressions
Guided tours
15 September 2024, 2 pm with artists and curators (in English)
6 October2024, 2 pm with artists and curators )in English as part of the 2024 REVOLUTIONALE Festival for Change
Funded by
In co-operation with
Culture Moves Europe – Funded by the European Union as part of the program „creative Europe“, initiated by the Goethe Institute
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.