GRANTEE
Ukrainian visual artists were among the first and most consistent to scrupulously document the Russian invasion on Ukraine and meticulously reflecting on the neo-imperial nature of the aggression and the decolonial character of the Ukrainian resistance, whether military, civil, or intellectual. While this war has repeatedly been dubbed “the most documented war in history,” artists do more than just document the visual layer of the physical reality with all the violence and destruction. They bear witness to and offer reflection on the enormous transformations of the society’s emotional, social, and symbolic fabrics in various parts of Ukraine. The focus of my writing about decoloniality and artistic practices, which I plan to continue in this project, has been on the ways in which visual material and language, used as part of an image, reflect and sometimes foresee or envision both human and non-human experiences of this war and its impact on people, communities, and values that keep the society together; how the emancipatory and decolonial character of these processes finds its way to the ever-changing visual languages, and through these languages to various audiences in Ukraine and abroad.