We invite you to the exhibition of Dmytro Yevseev from the museum series "Languages ​​of War", which is dedicated to the lived experience of Ukrainians since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine.
The series of graphic works by Dmytro Yevseev, "Palimpsest" was created in the spring of 2022 and demonstrates a common feature of Ukrainian military art: a forced change of the artist's mediums. The beginning of the war made format painting impossible for Yevseev and required the search for new techniques. Historians call the layering of texts in medieval manuscripts a palimpsest. This metaphor allowed Yevseyev to depict the sequence of words and actions that led to a large-scale disaster.
"But I use this documentary aesthetic as an excuse to talk about the premises. So I use the present to discuss the recent past, precisely ideology. In the works, you can see texts that can now be identified as Russian ideology, these are texts that were written at different times, and there are even texts by authors from a century ago. But they are all united by one imperial, colonial narrative. I want to show the prerequisites that initially exist in the symbolic world, it is in this project that I am trying to learn the essence of the Russian regime through the symbolic world it creates," - explained Dmytro Yevseev.
Dmytro covered the printing of anti-Ukrainian hostile propaganda with iconographic images of this war. They served as print screens from video reports of Ukrainian journalists and vernacular filming made by the Ukrainian military. This method of converting words into actions, and actions into consequences, makes graphic works a fixation of an almost performative act. This procedural is revealed by the video installation "Lingua Tertia Romae".
Dmytro Yevseev was born in 1988. Lives in Odessa. Graduated from Grekov State University in 2009. Works in various techniques of oil, acrylic painting, and graphics techniques. His works are in private collections in Ukraine, USA, Germany, in the Odesa National Art Museum collection. Participated in projects in Ukraine, Tbilisi, Georgia, Portugal, Great Britain.
The exhibition opens on January 22. On the opening day, admission is free and the first curator tours will take place.
It can be visited from Thursday to Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00.
