Castello di Rivoli, museum of contemporary art in Turin, will present the “A Letter from the front” project, consisting of filmic works and moving images from contemporary Ukrainian artists. The curators of the project are artists Nikita Kadan and Giulia Colletti.
Some Ukrainian artists participating in the project are now in besieged Ukrainian cities; others were able to flee to borderline areas or other countries. Among the participants are AntiGONNA, Nikita Kadan, Yaroslav Futymsky, Nikolay Karabinovych, Dana Kavelina, Alina Kleytman, Yuri Leiderman, Katya Libkind, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Himey, Lada Nakonechna, R.E.P., Revkovsky / Rachinsky, Oleksiy Sai.
The project will start on March 10 with the conversation between Nikita Kadan, who is currently in Kyiv, and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. The project will continue until March 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The screening will be broadcast at Castello di Rivoli Theater from March 10 to March 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. And starting from 11 March, also on the Digital Cosmos page of Castello di Rivoli and on the web page of ‘Il Giornale dell’Arte.’
“The greater the distances are between all of us, the more united we feel in our demand to stop the Russian aggression in Ukraine. We could not be more solidary than we are now while we face the fact that years of political struggles are in danger of dissolving and going up in smoke. The selection of filmic works and moving images presented do not strictly speak of the new war. They are rather an evidence of the work that has been done (or we thought we had done) to prevent the conflict. This works can be seen as a premonition of an evident and inevitable catastrophe, which too often in the history of Ukraine has been tangible,” participating artists said about the project.
Despite the war, Ukraine will participate in the Venice Biennale, the curators of the Ukrainian pavilion said.