I feel guilty when I throw away food. Grandma used to tell me about Holodomor (Famine of 1933)
Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, introduction by Serhiy Zhadan
Description
Post-photographic research, which explores traces of a traumatic historical event in everyday practices and in contemporary landscape and tests the limits of photography as a medium in trauma representation. The starting point of this project was the personal sense of guilt which accompanies the acts of throwing food away. This feeling is common in contemporary Ukrainian culture and originates in our postmemory - it was imprinted into our generation’s behavioral patterns by the stories of our grandparents - survivors of the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine called the Holodomor, which killed millions. The ink prints document the thrown-away food while fragments of found black-and-white photographs of unrecognisable landscapes demonstrate the lack of the famine’s traces in the landscape – unlike many collective traumas which have exact geographic locations and present in the landscape in the form of ‘places of memory’.
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Author Biography
Andriy Dostlev (born 1984) is an artist, designer and curator who lives and works in Poznań, Poland. His main interest is the topic of personal and collective memory and trauma. He works in various media with a special emphasis on post-photography. Andriy exhibits in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Italy, Norway, etc. Lia Dostleva (born 1984) is an artist, curator, cultural anthropologist, author of Culture.pl, Czas Kultury, Korydor. Lives and works in Poznań. Researches the issue of empathy, trauma and post-memory. As an artist since 2012, she has been working in various media, including photography, installation, multimedia, textile sculptures, interventions in urban space, etc.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher RODOVID
- Publication Date 2019
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177482351
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages104
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleМені досі соромно викидати їжу. Бабуся розповідала мені про Голодомор
- Original Language AuthorsДостлєв Андрій, Достлєва Лія, Сергій Жадан (вступ)
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