Potentially (un)acceptable content: the exhibition of Stas Zhalobniuk has started in the Gallery of Protest Art

The exhibition will last until November 6, 2022.

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< span>On Thursday, September 22, in Kyiv, the exhibition “Potentially (un)acceptable content” by Odesa artist Stas Zhalobniuk was opened in the Gallery of Protest Art of the Maidan Museum. The artist presented in Kyiv a series of works created during the Russian-Ukrainian war. The works, made mainly in mixed media (collage), are sometimes shocking. Stas Zhalobniuk assures that he is documenting and revealing the true face of the occupiers, and in this way seeks to destroy the reputation of Russian culture where myths about its greatness still exist.

Vasyl Artyushenko, ZN.UA

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This war series is not so much a documentation of events as a reaction to the tragedy that we all experience: atrocities in Buch, mined shores of the artist's native Odesa, every time fresh news about the crimes of the occupiers and life in constant tension, one of the reasons for which is endless air alarms.

Vasyl Artyushenko, ZN.UA

The title “Potentially (un)acceptable content” is, according to the author , not about his exhibition, but about the reality that he captures and in which millions of Ukrainians currently live – we cannot retouch reality, stop seeing the horrors of war. The frankness of the author in the works should, in theory, shock, but in essence these are deeply humanistic works, from which one can read the emotional pain and experiences not only individual, personal, but also those that are a sign of our time.

< p>Vasyl Artyushenko, ZN.UA

Once such works would be called an anti-war series, but not today and not at this exhibition, the theme of genocide, which Stas Zhalobniuk also addresses in his works, is important not only because of the definition of today's racist crimes, but also because of the reminder that we do not have the right to surrender to those who for centuries sought to erase Ukraine from the face of the earth.

Potentially (un)acceptable content: the exhibition of Stas Zhalobniuk has started in the Gallery of Protest Art

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