Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva
«I still feel sorry when I throw away food — Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor»
11 December 2021 — 9 January 2022
«I still feel sorry when I throw away food — Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor»
11 December 2021 — 9 January 2022
Every time I throw away (for any of the reasons) potentially good food I subconsciously feel sorry for doing so. There are no logical reasons behind this sense of guilt — by all means, I can afford not to eat the food I don't want to eat. These are only leftovers on the plate — and yet I feel so sorry.
This sense originates not in reason but rather in my postmemory (using the term coined by Marianne Hirsch). When I was a kid, my grandma would share with me memories from her childhood and sometimes among them were memories from the early 1930s — the times of the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine (called the «Holodomor» — derived from «to kill by starvation» in Ukrainian), which killed, by various estimates, between 2.4 and 7.5 million people. And the guilt I feel now for the thrown-away food takes its origins there, in these stories about my family surviving this hunger.
To illustrate and to better understand this sense of guilt, I started recording the traces of all the food I've been throwing away with this sense. These prints were later collaged with small pieces of found photos depicting fragments of anonymous and unrecognisable landscapes.
Landscape here is used as a direct opposite of the Holodomor's traces in postmemory of subsequent generations, since mass deaths by hunger leave no traces in the landscape — unlike many other massive collective traumas which have their exact geographic locations and their traces can still exist in the landscape in the form of 'places of memory'
This sense originates not in reason but rather in my postmemory (using the term coined by Marianne Hirsch). When I was a kid, my grandma would share with me memories from her childhood and sometimes among them were memories from the early 1930s — the times of the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine (called the «Holodomor» — derived from «to kill by starvation» in Ukrainian), which killed, by various estimates, between 2.4 and 7.5 million people. And the guilt I feel now for the thrown-away food takes its origins there, in these stories about my family surviving this hunger.
To illustrate and to better understand this sense of guilt, I started recording the traces of all the food I've been throwing away with this sense. These prints were later collaged with small pieces of found photos depicting fragments of anonymous and unrecognisable landscapes.
Landscape here is used as a direct opposite of the Holodomor's traces in postmemory of subsequent generations, since mass deaths by hunger leave no traces in the landscape — unlike many other massive collective traumas which have their exact geographic locations and their traces can still exist in the landscape in the form of 'places of memory'
Artists, researchers. Both work with the themes of trauma, postmemory, subjectivity and representation of vulnerable population groups. Their works were exhibited in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, etc. Scholarship holders of the program of "Gaude Polonia" from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and Ukraine in the European Dialogue program from the Austrian Institute for Human Sciences (IWM). Their works have been published in such publications as Eurozine, Baltic Worlds, Culture.pl, Korydor and others.
Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva
Artists — Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva
Designer — Lara Yakovenko
Photographer — Ivan Strakhov
Communication — Yevheniia Seleznova, Kateryna Igolkina, Krystyna Kebikova, Kateryna Kharchenko, Alla Psatii
Exhibition project partners:
Cultural memory platform Past / Future / Art, curators — Kateryna Semenyuk, Oksana Dovgopolova
forumZFD (Forum Civil Peace Service) in Ukraine
Designer — Lara Yakovenko
Photographer — Ivan Strakhov
Communication — Yevheniia Seleznova, Kateryna Igolkina, Krystyna Kebikova, Kateryna Kharchenko, Alla Psatii
Exhibition project partners:
Cultural memory platform Past / Future / Art, curators — Kateryna Semenyuk, Oksana Dovgopolova
forumZFD (Forum Civil Peace Service) in Ukraine
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