In the work MOYA RIDNA I use photography as a medium to close the gap between memory and reality.
«Life will overcome death and light will overcome darkness». This quote was published on the cover of The New York Times on the 24th of February 2022, the day of Russian invasion in Ukraine. I remember the family stories of my friends from Georgia, Syria and Palestine. The war, as phenomena in the human history is normality rather than an exception. You understand it once the war comes to your Home. One day can change everything, and everything can change in one day.
I took the camera because I wanted to remember. I photograph to remember. Probably It’s the only way to change things. Look at everything again, very slowly. Probably, we need to learn the great beauty from the deepest pain. The ongoing project Moya Ridna is a story of war, loss and hope. I avoided using devastating graphic images from media to depict the war, and searched for visual metaphors representing my family experience in these times instead.
«All photographs are memento mori» - Roland Barthes. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. This body of work is an exploration of symbols in the visual language, combining photography, archive pictures and cinematic stills. It's a personal revaluation of childhood memories, family relationships put in the context of war. Dedicated to my mother.
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Moya Ridna (ukr. моя рідна) means my familiar, my dear, my beloved one. It’s mostly used with nouns, that in Ukrainian language are female, e.g.: mother, earth, language (мати, земля, мова). This word combination is mostly known from the classic Ukrainian folk song Ridna matu moya (Dearest mother of mine) performed by Kvitka Cisyk.
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Satellite images from Maxar Satellite Technologies showing a huge
convoy of Russian armour advancing towards Kyiv from the north
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The sunflower is not only a peace symbol, but it's also a national Ukrainian flower, that in often to be seen in the villages and countryside fields of Ukraine. And nowadays among yellow-blue colors combinations it is used to express solidarity.
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Screenshots from the movie Zemlya (Earth) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930. Commissioned to make propaganda for Stalin’s farm collectivization, the author instead delivered an impassioned hymn to nature. In Ukrainian language, the word "zemlya" stands both for the land and the earth.
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"Wounded Earth". Satellite imagery from June 6, 2022.
Fields peppered with hundreds of artillery craters.
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On the second of March 2022, my parents and three young sisters flee the
war and came to Prague, where they found a temporary home.
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The stories, captured on the photos from the family archive, were unrevealing in front of me. All those people, who were born, went to a kindergarten, had a first kiss, cried, fall in love and died. They all went through this common experience of our collective, that I am also going through. Frozen moments became vivid, drawing a boundary between fiction and reality, past and present. Now it is me the Future, me, who was unfolding and writing new stories.
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I would call it the happiest day of my life when the war in Ukraine will be over. However, it’s only one war in the world, among many, that as phenomena in the human existence and as for the history, are normality, rather than an exception. You understand it once the war comes to your Home. One day can change everything, and everything can change in one day.
“It was the books that taught me, that the things that tormented me most, were the things that connected me with all the people, who were alive, who had ever been alive”. In the world, where the history is made by the rulers, who used complicated strategies to fight one another, the importance and uniqueness of human life is neglected. I think of those who stayed, of the ones who left and about all those, who were lost.
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