Posts By: Lesia Kulchynska

Radically Different Society: Ukrainian Art in the Light of Revolution, in the Shadow of War

By Lesia Kulchynska, August 11, 2023

This lecture was presented on October 22, 2022, in Paris as a part of the symposium “History of Contemporary Art in Ukraine: from resisting the System to Constructing a common future“, organized by the Kandinsky Library, MNAM/Centre Georges-Pompidou on the occasion of the donation of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists to the national collection of [...]

Violence is an Image: Weaponization of the Visuality During the War in Ukraine

By Lesia Kulchynska, October 26, 2022

Can an image be a weapon? By the word weapon I mean not the device that helps you win, but an instrument of violence — a device (in this case, a symbolic device) that can inflict harm and damage. This question was invoked during the first months of the full-scale invasion when we (the consumers [...]

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