Art Resistance: Exhibition in Kyiv
Odesa artist Denis Nedoluzhenko, currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, participated in the exhibition "Art Resistance", which runs from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.
This exhibition is part of the "Book Country" festival and brings together artists whose work reflects their experiences of war and resistance.
His series titled "Motorola 1917" exemplifies the artistic deconstruction of Soviet and contemporary Russian imperial myths.
"Before mobilization, I was engaged in painting and ceramics for a living, but military service has given new momentum to my creativity. During my service, I stumbled upon Soviet propaganda literature in old textbooks. The idea emerged: I imagined myself as a student of that era, forced to study the 'heroes' of the empire, and as a small act of resistance, I began to paint over these portraits, deconstructing the myth. Each piece became a form of protest and a record of our time of struggle," the artist shared.
Born in 1987 in the village of Chyzhove, Odesa region, he graduated from Odesa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov with a degree in microbiology and general virology. He has been participating in art exhibitions since 2018 and currently lives and works in Odesa, focusing on painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics, with main styles being expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materiality.
Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs titled "Fracture Lines" by the award-winning French photographer Matthieu Chazal has opened in Odesa. For nearly two decades, Chazal documented war while traveling around the Black and Mediterranean Seas, from the Balkans to the Caucasus, Greece to Armenia, and from Ukraine to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.