On 11 February, the Tokyo Palace in Paris will open an exhibition entitled How Feelings Become Battlefields: Ukrainian Art and the Infrastructure of War, featuring works by Ukrainian artists and researchers. This was reported by Rubryka.
According to the organisers, the project explores how media, algorithms and propaganda function during war and how art resists, subverts and reinterprets them.
“In modern wars, battles are fought not only on physical front lines, but also through screens, networks and infrastructure that shape what we see, think and feel. Propaganda, algorithmic control and affective manipulation mobilise emotions as weapons of war,” the project description states.
The following speakers will present their ideas at the exhibition:
- Svitlana Matviyenko, Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis at Simon Fraser University;
- Lera Malchenko and Oleksandr Hants, cultural figures from the Fantastic Little Splash creative collective;
- artists Sasha Kurmaz, Lesya Vasylchenko and Serhiy Petlyuk;
- Kateryna Yakovlenko, a journalist and curator who researches the impact of war on aesthetics, art and memory.
The event will conclude with a round-table discussion moderated by Antonio Somaini, Professor of Visual Arts at Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
The exhibition is curated by art historian Oksana Karpovets in partnership with the Ukrainian and French Institutes.
The exhibition is part of the Ukrainian season in France, Voyage to Ukraine.
About the Ukrainian Season in France, Voyage to Ukraine:
- a series of cultural events aimed at deepening ties between the communities of France and Ukraine;
- organised in co-operation with the Ukrainian and French Institutes;
- runs from December 2025 to April 2026;
- the project’s slogan is “Culture Strikes Back”;
- events initiated as part of the project cover Paris, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg and Lyon.