“Flooding” is an art book, a series of texts, and an exhibition about the blurred history of Stanislaviv-Frankivsk, which Nikita Kadan, Alona Karavai, Harri Kraievets, Maryna Sedova, Yarema Malashchuk, and Roman Khimei have been working on for over a year. It is a conversation about historical genocide that takes place against the backdrop of a new genocide. The starting point of the exhibition was Bloody Sunday, when during the Nazi occupation of Stanislaviv, 6,000 to 10,000 thousand Jewish women and men were killed in one day.
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.
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 book 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.
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.