On May 13 the exhibition «Tell them about battles, meteors, and eggplant caviar» has been opened in Stimultania exhibition space, Strasbourg, France.The exposition features seven Ukrainian photographers: Alex Blanco, Maxim Dondyuk, Yana Kononova, Olga Kukush, Oksana Nevmerzhytska, Elena Subach, Daria Svertilova.
Main image: Series Meat, Fish and Eggplant Caviar by Alex Blanco
«Tell them about battles, meteors and eggplant caviar» is part of the Ukraine support program, supervised by the Réseau Diagonal with the support of the Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) and the Institut Français (INSTITUT FRANÇAIS). With support from Odesa Photo Days and the help of Kateryna Radchenko. Curated by Stimultania in collaboration with Le Centre Claude Cahun and Galerie le Carré d'Art.
Odesa Photo Days is an international festival of contemporary photography based in Ukraine as well as an educational platform. It brings Ukrainian photography to the forefront and creates links between artists, curators and researchers from different parts of the world: Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, -United.Â
The eighth edition of the festival was scheduled to take place in Odesa from May 19 to 22, 2022. Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, however, changed everything. On February 24, 2022, an all-out war began in Ukraine. From now on, Kateryna Radchenko, director and curator of Odesa Photo Days and the festival team are working to relay the situation in Ukraine throughout the world and to support documentary photographers and artist-photographers affected by the war.Â
Exhibition presented at Stimultania, Strasbourg, from May 13 to September 17, 2022, at Carré d'Art, Center culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres-de-Bretagne, from January 20 to March 4, 2023, and at Center Claude Cahun, Nantes, from May to June 2023.
The exhibition is open until 17 September. More information you can find on the Stimultania website.
