The artist was here
Parfion was a musician, an autodidact artist, and a representative of the so-called outsider art. He was born in Leningrad, but for the most of his life he lived in Ivano-Frankivsk. Most of his artistic output is rough portraits. Eyewitnesses say that Parfion painted a lot, trying to sell his works cheaply or exchange them for alcohol. The same eyewitnesses claim that art was “fun for Parfion, a way to spend time with pleasure, to shock the public.” This art magazine collects individual works by and about Parfion - texts, references, and discussions about whom he (was). All of those were collected while working on the exhibition „The artist was here“ in August 2023.
Collective Fantasies and Eastern Resources
Artist Kateryna Aliinyk and curator Natashа Chychasova talk about the prolonged history of Russian occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk. The war hit their hometowns in the spring of 2014. The texts and the visual materials unify the experiences of losing their homes, trips to the occupied territories, and continuous digging into their own memories and lost landscapes.
Matches
"Dear Sufferers, I wish you, my dear ones, good luck on the path of reading, acting out, parodying, criticising, mocking, feeling resentment and affection whileg to know these people. They are now in your trusted eyes. And I have only one request for you: while reading, please do not imagine yourself as scattered earth, and if you have already done, do not blow it away" - from the play "Matches" by Yevhenia Belorusets. Yevheniia Belorusets is a Ukrainian photographer, writer and translator. Her work lies at the intersection of visual art, literature, journalism and civic activism, between documentary and fiction. The theater play "Matches" was written and illustrated by the author in 2023.
Ilostmylibrary is a niche publishing project by the NGO Asortymentna Kimnata and an (almost accidental) collection of books about the unreported, unpopular, and peripheral. It’s an unstructured library with plenty of gray areas and a lack of linearity. It is similar to the spontaneous libraries that still appear in our (temporary) homes, even if we have decided not to collect books anymore.
The artist was here
Collective Fantasies and Eastern Resources
Matches
Heating season
Teenagers. War. Art.
