We invite you to visit the exhibition of Kharkiv artist Olia Fedorova, ‘Love | Rage,’ which will take place on 2 November at 6:30 p.m. Project curator Oleksandra Shovkun will talk about the exhibition and the meanings embedded in the works.
The project combines the artist's textual and visual-poetic practices, which began at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion and continue to this day. It is about experiencing and reliving the strong emotions caused by the war.
The exhibition is based on two series and several individual works. The artist's works contain a large number of texts with different moods: from therapeutic meditations and affirmations to outbursts of pure hatred, from life-affirming prayers to desperate curses. Olya also demonstrates how these emotions can quickly flow into one another. With this contrast, which is quite typical of our folk spells, where humble Christian motifs are mixed with rather harsh pagan ones, the artist draws a parallel with contemporary realities, the emotions and feelings that millions of Ukrainians have faced. It is about understanding, compassion, unity in shared pain, the severity of which turns into strength. It is about the natural need to release adrenaline, about the rage that fuels the fight against the enemy, the fight for life.
WHEN: 2 November 2023, at 18:30
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Krutohirnyy Uzviz 21a. Entrance from Krutohirnyy Uzviz
FREE ENTRY
Photo: Stanislav Pyvonos
Design: Alla Sorochan
