Inga Levi

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Double Exposure (Подвійна експозиція)

I was caught by the news that Russia attacked Ukraine while in Lviv, making my way to the Carpathians. I was going to help my colleagues prepare for the opening of the Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit Museum in Kryvorivnia village. I went there, spending the whole day on the road reading the news. When there was no internet connection any more, I looked out of the bus window at the peaceful mountains, but in fact I continued seeing explosions in the cities of Ukraine, in my city.
That's what I started drawing, making one drawing for each day.
In my war-time series Double Exposure, I depict an overlapping of two accounts: the scenes I witness while navigating relatively safe routes in and out of the country; and the traumatic news reports from places of belonging in Ukraine. Sometimes I leave only one layer of the image when the war comes close enough to me personally.

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    On 2 June 2023, the exhibition “Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War” will be officially opened. The exhibition, organized in cooperation with Bildrecht and FOTO WIEN, will be held from 2 June to 1 July 2023 at Bildraum Studio.