23/07/2024

On July 27, artist Olga Marusyn will hold a performance "The Search for Eternal Life. Foreign Exercises"

We invite you to an event by Olga Marusyn, which will take place on July 27 - watch the first performance in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, through which the artist will share several exercises, developed during constant travels abroad and back.

"In the second year of the war, I realized that the only thing that interests me (what makes sense to work on, what is worth paying attention to, what I can focus on), and I should be heard immediately and completely without interruption - is the search for eternal life," - Olga Marusyn.

WHEN: Saturday, July 27, 5:00 PM
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Krutogornyy Uzviz 21A (entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square)

Admission is free with mandatory registration! Link to the Google form: https://forms.gle/ZrgUFxHJ1FCTvemRA

If possible, we would be happy to support with a donation — all funds raised will be added to the collection for medicine, which is being held by one of the artists whose work is presented at the exhibition, Margarita Polovinko.

Photo: Olya Vasylets
Design: Alla Sorochan

Attention! Nudity is possible in the performance.

Olga Marusyn is a choreographer and artist who reflects and examines herself through nonlinear performative storytelling, and likes to focus on working with impossibility.

Olga works with text, video, dance, and a number of other media. Member of the collective Abstract Finger (pointing to nothing), co-founder and resident of soma.workshop in Lviv.

Her practice primarily consists of critical reflection on personal experience and the search for a performative language of group structures. During the full-scale war, the artist became the curator of the project “We-Musical” based on the volunteer initiative “Kitchen”, and also performed both solo and in various collaborations in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan and Poland.

The event takes place within the framework of the project “The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood”.

This exhibition is supported by the “Partnership for a Strong Ukraine” Foundation.

On July 27, artist Olga Marusyn will hold a performance "The Search for Eternal Life. Foreign Exercises"

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