Iryna Zamuruieva

Iryna Zamuruieva’s writing and photography explore human-environmental relationships at different scales. During her fellowship at the IWM, she will build on strands of her research and creative work, where she considers the importance of particular plants. Having recently worked with Adonis vernalis to write about the steppe and kin-relations, and Geranium to study the making of militarized landscapes and feminist approaches to landscape photography, Zamuruieva is now planning to examine Rapeseed and contemporary agricultural practices and land relations in Ukraine. Drawing on her research on the life and work of Ukrainian anthropologist and, as Zamuruieva argues, proto-ecofeminist Kateryna Hrushevska, she intends to analyze the political ecology of land relations in Ukraine, developing methodologies rooted in Ukrainian intellectual thought and theories. During the fellowship, Zamuruieva will explore land histories of her kin-region in central Ukraine, drawing on archival, media and auto-ethnographic research methods to create a body of work spanning writing and images.