From December 28 to January 10, Taras Kurylko's photo project "In(un)live communication" will be exhibited in the Dzyga coffee shop gallery.
The world is made of messages that we transmit and store. 300 days of February tell us about another reality in the objects around us. The photo project "(Un)live communication" is primarily an observation of changes in urban environments after February 24, 2022.
The photo project covers three cities: Lviv, Chernivtsi and Kyiv. Each has an individual experience of war, a common position and its own visual language. The main message in the photos is conveyed through the prism of inanimate objects of urban infrastructure, which have changed or shown a completely different form of perception for us after the full-scale invasion. Sometimes this form of perception is deliberately changed by man.
Some monuments and objects receive additional protection in order to be preserved in the future. Others, on the contrary, are dismantled in order to make the environment fit the modern Ukrainian context. At the same time, some elements are installed or dismantled to contribute to the safety (life) of citizens in wartime.
Hence, it is necessary to put the particle (not) in brackets in the title of the photo project, because both "living" and "inanimate" complement each other in the photographs and communicate to the viewer.
