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The work of Dana Cavelin (photo: Dana Cavelina) Artnet wrote about the New York ...

Women in the war. Artnet wrote about the New York exhibition of 12 Ukrainian artists

The work of Dana Cavelin (photo: Dana Cavelina) Artnet wrote about the New York exhibition of 12 Ukrainian artists in war (Women at War). “Women in the war are an exhibition of works of twelve Ukrainian artists who have survived the current conflict and the events that caused it.

The exhibition, which is overwhelmed by Monica Fabian for Fridman Gallery, allows you to penetrate into the psyche of a group of artists who have learned to live in a condition that at the exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art in Budapest in 2018 was called the "Permanent Revolution", - the article reads. Some of the works were created in the midst of the present war, others - during the previous moments of Ukraine's struggle for self -determination.

In the essay, accompanying the exhibition, Kurator Fabian states: "Women are usually absent in historical stories about war, but violence against a woman is regarded as an encroachment on earth and nation. " The exhibition of linogravure by the activist of artist Alla Gorskaya (1929–1970), depicting the Ukrainian poet, dissident Ivan Svitlychny.

"It is known in the Soviet times for its murals, mosaics and stained glass in the Donbass (many of them are probably destroyed by Russian bombs), as well as its protests to protect human rights in Ukraine, Gorsk was killed in 1970 by the KGB," the material reads.

Other participants of the exhibition belong to the post -Soviet era: here you can find the works of Elena Thunder, Eugene Belarusian, Lesya Khomenko, Anna Shcherbina, Oksana Chepelyk, Oli Fedorov, Kateryna Yermolaeva, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevina Kakhiddze, Ralko, Dana Kaelko. "Feminism in Ukraine goes differently than feminism in the West," says at the end of the article. - It is not so much that "personal is political", as Western feminists say. Rather, "political is personal.