Dymchuk Gallery presents the exhibition project Fractured Tomorrows, which includes paintings and objects by Ukrainian artists: Dmytro Yevseyev, Mykola Lukin, and Yurii Pikul.
The project focuses on the situation of uncertainty during wartime and the feelings that arise in times when familiar anchors—personal, societal, and visual—disappear. The works convey a state after a fracture, where the connection between the present and the future loses clarity, and the usual ideas about the development of events no longer function.
Fractured Tomorrows was first presented in 2024 at the Schnitzer& art center (Munich, Germany) with the support of Goethe-Institut Ukraine. The international context became the starting point for a conversation about how the war in Ukraine, which was initially perceived as a local catastrophe in the West, transforms the overall concept of stability and the future. The exhibition in Kyiv is a continuation of this conversation, set in a space that is itself part of the experience of uncertainty.
Fragments of the exhibition contain allusions to landscapes of destruction today, which, through the surrealism of the imagery, transport the viewer as if to another planet. The forms are blurred, and one can partially make out airplanes, notice signs of the city, and its industrial zones. People are waiting for the enemy's aggressive force, which fills the outskirts.
The works of Dmytro Yevseyev, Mykola Lukin, and Yurii Pikul do not depict war literally. Their works are a language of metaphor, atmosphere, and imagery that arises at a moment when the familiar becomes ghostly, and the future becomes fragmented.
About the artists:
Dmytro Yevseyev – Born in 1988. Education – Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov, Faculty of Painting. He lives and works in Odesa. The foundation of the artist's painting practice is new metaphysics and hyperreality as a reference point in the search for fundamental principles of human existence. Deliberate realistic exaggeration in his works generates the excessiveness of the image, which overcomes the distance of the symbolic and allows the viewer to "immerse" in the inner state of the image.
Mykola Lukin – Born in 1987 in Odesa.
2009 – Graduated from Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov, studied at the Art and Graphics Department of the South Ukrainian Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynskyi, Master's degree in Fine Arts and Art History.
Since 2011 – has been teaching at the Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov. He lives and works in Odesa. In his works, he combines realistic painting with imaginative compositions, the meaning of which can vary from everyday lyrical to existentially timeless. Thematically, the artist works with mystification and mythologization of reality, as well as with selectivity and fragmentation in its representation.
Yurii Pikul – Born in 1983 in Kyiv.
2005 – entered the National Academy of Fine Arts but withdrew voluntarily. He lives and works in Kyiv.
In his realistic painting, he uses everyday life as a metaphor for art itself. His documentary canvases are a poeticization of reality and a reflection on the place of painting in contemporary art and in human life in general.
