https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst daily 0.75 2025-12-17 https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/micro-and-macro-dimensions-of-a-world-at-war-in-the-art-of-lesia-vasylchenko-and-kateryna-aliinyk monthly 0.5 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/5e7788e1-5e20-44b1-a497-e583d3433a29/1.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk Lesia Valylchenko, Night Without Shadows and Light Without Rippling of Waves, 2022–2025. Above: Tachyoness, 2022, video, 8’00’’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/fea2b960-cda0-44c2-96ff-6a478047d343/portrait_Lesia+Vasylchenko.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk - Make it stand out Lesia Vasylchenko (born in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an artist and a researcher. Her practice spans video, photography, and installation, focusing on the intersections of visual culture, media technologies, and chronopolitics. She develops speculative terminology such as "Tachyonic Data" (Onassis Publications) and "Chronosphere" (Institute of Network Cultures) to critically explore temporality, more-than-human time, and technologies of vision. Vasylchenko is the founder of STRUKTURA.Time, an interdisciplinary initiative bridging visual art, media archaeology, literature, and philosophy. Vasylchenko holds a degree in Journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a degree in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work has been shown, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, MUNCH Museum, Henie Onstad Art Center. She received the Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Award (2023), the PinchukArtCentre Prize Main Award (2025) and is currently nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize (2027). Her work is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/9c3bd22f-22fb-46be-b400-e50bc9263ad9/portrait_Kateryna+Aliinyk.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk - Make it stand out Born in 1998 in Luhansk, Ukraine. Focused on painting, Kateryna Aliinyk also works with text, creates objects and installations. She is one of the most interesting voices on the contemporary Ukrainian art scene. The main topics of her art are war and the occupation of Ukraine as well as their consequences depicted through imagery and metaphors of nature and non-anthropocentric optics. A graduate in painting of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev (2021), she has also completed contemporary art courses at the KAMA Kyiv Academy of Media Arts and at the Method Fund (both in 2020). Artist-in-residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2022). Kateryna Aliinyk’s works have been exhibited worldwide, including Ukraine, Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Italy, UK and Romania. In 2024 she was invited to the From Ukraine: Dare to Dream exhibition organised by the PinchukArtCentre, which accompanied the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. In June 2025 she won the First Special Prize at the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 for the Blades of Grass with Blades of Steel project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/a96291bf-3351-4d55-80e3-c26ba8dc1783/7.JPG A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk - Make it stand out All Their Life Is Still Ahead of Them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/46246495-1e50-4296-a902-c36b05d3fd78/8.JPG A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk - Make it stand out Freedom is just another way of saying that you have nothing left to lose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/ffaa0908-6025-4186-8fbe-d4c96a2ab2a0/5.JPG A Quiet Catalyst - Micro and Macro Dimensions of a World at War in the Art of Lesia Vasylchenko and Kateryna Aliinyk - Make it stand out The Dream Came True! https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/how-war-penetrates-the-european-art-collectors-minds-insider-pov monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/64bc204b-72b6-4491-8dc5-224519f641e2/IMG_0951.jpeg A Quiet Catalyst - How War Penetrates the European Art Collectors’ Minds: Insider POV - Ulrich Erben, Untouchable, 2022. From the website of Rotary Club Germany. “You know, what is the title of it?”, the man asked me with a shade of conspiracy, “Untouchable. He called it “Untouchable””. He shows a photo of the painting on his smartphone, and it is a large canvas of a Ukrainian blue-and-yellow, painted over the Russian white-blue-red. The flag on the background is barely perceivable in the narrow margin between the Ukrainian flag and the canvas’ edge. The colours of my land are painted in a superb technique championed by Ulrich Erben. And he called them untouchable. A man who thinks in terms of colour gradients and geometrical forms produced a manifesto on the moral superiority of the victim over the aggressor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/52fb616d-a857-4923-8e5a-eccf3bc0e07f/KQmKcaKA2YqW5aJbg6WjXWNIai32CtLAxbf8QbmC.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - How War Penetrates the European Art Collectors’ Minds: Insider POV I brought my favourite shirt to the fair. It is a black linen shirt, embroidered in white and red delicate stems of grain, birds, and a big word “Slovo” (Слово ukr.: Word) on the sleeves. It is a shirt from the Ukrainian brand Etnodim, dedicated to the Kharkiv group of writers and dissidents from the 20th century. All of them occupied a cooperative building in the form of “C” for Слово. I was wearing it when a young woman approached me and greeted me in Ukrainian. I replied enthusiastically, before she hastily proceeded to explain that she saw my shirt and just wanted to say hello. Her friend, another young woman, joined her shortly, and she was also Ukrainian. They asked me a few questions about our stand. They were not there to buy, they came to the fair on Sunday to take a look at art. It was exciting and moving to connect this part of my life to my home, through language and interaction with Ukrainians. I was sorry to say that I had to move on to the next potential client, thus being forced to say goodbye. They wished me loads of luck, all three of us moved by this brief encounter, and happy to have recognised each other in the crowd, even though not acquainted before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/07d66cf3-ba85-4d9c-8f9f-d7e9ce8d3e5e/unnamed.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - How War Penetrates the European Art Collectors’ Minds: Insider POV - Franco Guerzoni, Giardino Zen, 2009. Photo by me. An enormous white painting by Guerzoni attracted a lot of attention thanks to its size and its compelling minimalism. A couple of senior ladies approached me to talk about it. One of them spoke English, and she asked whether the artwork was hinting at a landscape of a battlefield. The traces excavated in plaster were reminiscent of the car tracks in the mud, and the little arrangement of rocks – of a ruin or a barricade. The title of the artwork is Giardino Zen (ita.: Zen Garden), and the traces were really meant to symbolise the meditative movement of a sand rake: slow, precise, and repetitive. The arrangement of stones is nothing more than garden gravel. Hints of colour that shine through the white plaster can be relative to the remnants of plants, natural pigments and dusts. In other words, nothing about this piece is about a war landscape. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/on-human-and-non-human-witnesses-of-genocide monthly 0.5 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/6dd3bf74-f87c-4b16-8b3d-23ed636f14bd/Kharkiv1.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Victim of the Holodomor, Kharkiv, Ukraine, photo by Alexander Wienerberger, 1933. My grandmother told me that her father used to take her for a walk in the woods, and this was the only place where he could spill some of the details, and they were horrifying. They used to live in one of the streets of Kharkiv adjacent to the Railway Station Square. My great-grandfather had to cross it every day to get to work. In 1933, the square was covered in dead bodies — swollen corpses with shiny, transparent skin and skinny limbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/0210ccc9-0b61-4e0c-8a34-e29bea934dbe/4_Daria+Koltsova_Witnesses_Suprainfinit_2024.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Daria Koltsova, Witnesses, 2024, metal, stained glass, 205 x 84 x 40cm / 202 x 84 x 60 cm. Photo by Roald Aron. Next, the viewer, blinded by the sun of glass, steps out into the field. A series of sculptures varying in form bear the same title: Witness. A group of them resemble a burnt sunflower. Made of metal and black glass, the round surface of the flower is perfectly reflective of its surroundings. Daria Koltsova uses vintage glass produced in the 1960s. It lacks the most fundamental quality – transparency. It is transparency that made glass come into mass use, its absence cripples the material, making it disfunctional. However, in the lack of clearness, a new form of communication emerges: reflection. A confrontation with an artwork that reflects the viewer provides a space for an internal dialogue. One may ask, what else did this mirror see? What memory does it hold? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/0515bb8c-416e-41b8-aba2-c9de766979f9/10_Daria+Koltsova_In+the+splendour+of+fallen+suns_Exhibition+View_Suprainfit_2024.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Make it stand out Daria Koltsova, In the splendour of fallen suns, exhibition view, Suprainfinit Gallery, 2024. Photo by Roald Aron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/4caefb9d-3c8c-4c0c-948d-e840a4a0bf82/Tasia.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Make it stand out Tasia, from my family’s archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/f0b4914e-3257-49f9-be4c-33c5cb34e7b4/7__Daria+Koltsova_Witnesses_detail_Suprainfinit_2024.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Daria Koltsova, Witnesses (detail), 2024, cement, stained glass, 282 x 32 x 36cm. Photo by Roald Aron. The second group of Witnesses towers over its viewers in their solemn symbolism. The squared columns of stained glass and concrete take on a form of giant totem-like spikes of wheat. Nature’s perfectly equillibrated creation, here it is a weighty reminder of the cost of every seed of Ukrainian grain that does not lose its painful symbolic meaning of loss and hope even today. What was created as a plant became a memorial statue under the hand of Daria Koltsova. As a memorial to those who perished of famine, as a monument to those who unmine and sow Ukrainian fields today, and ultimately, to Daria’s dear grandfather, so devoted to it, to life itself. One of the columns features the aforementioned black glass. When Russians burnt entire fields of Ukrainian grain, it was not only an act of war but a reenactment of the Holodomor’s gruesome setup. These spikes of grain, of glass and concrete, allow the viewer to gaze inside themselves. To reflect themselves in our tragedy, our hope, and our history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/b7f116e0-30b8-4338-9015-4163993491a8/3_Daria+Koltsova_In+the+splendour+of+fallen+suns_Exhibition+View_Suprainfinit_2024.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Make it stand out Daria Koltsova, In the splendour of fallen suns, exhibition view, Suprainfinit Gallery, 2024. Photo by Roald Aron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/09fc6243-fcb5-43bb-b1be-b27c35acf5c4/Kharkiv2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On Human and Non-human Witnesses of Holodomor - Mass graves filled with victims of the Holodomor, Kharkiv, Ukraine, photo by Alexander Wienerberger, 1933. A wagon would roll into the middle of the square every few days to load the bodies and take them away. That part of the country is covered in mass graves of those who perished of hunger in 1932-1933. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/71qv8z39znyns9jgl22d4uwaa7f7d2 monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/5dfa66d5-e52a-41fa-b6e3-61fc898b9933/Foto+Assosiated+Press.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Make it stand out The aftermath of Kakhovka dam explosion, photo Assosiated Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/a894b473-045e-4d52-8c3e-2a37348224ad/Vasylchenko.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Make it stand out Chronosphere, a video installation by Ukrainian artist Lesia Vasylchenko (2024.) photo by Michele Amaglio, courtesy Adiacenze, Bologna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/a96469f4-3b40-4b64-a4ec-6f97080066bd/Nikita+Kadan%2C+%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%87%D1%8F+%D0%86%2C+2024.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Nikita Kadan, Crater and Face I, 2024. Nikita Kadan, Crater and Face I, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/5e03a088-75d5-4967-997c-d32f4ec9ee21/Kinder+Album%2C+I+want+to+Save+all+the+animals+of+Ukraine.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Make it stand out Kinder Album, I Want to Save All The Animals of Ukraine, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/68f7ffdd-6724-4f3e-b151-2bd99c3dc7a1/Chepelyk.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Make it stand out Oksana Chepelyk, Ecocide, 2023. Art exhibition at the City Works Water Tower Wesel, Brandstraße 44 in Wesel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/c407bbed-63ea-4246-bdc5-2f0acf00895a/kinder+album%2C+russia%27s+ecicode+in+ukraine.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Death Cult on a Living Land - Make it stand out Kinder Album, Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine, 2023. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/the-calamity-routines monthly 0.5 2025-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/659c8051-e6c4-4e4a-9c79-45f78ac4e490/me.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - The Calamity Routines - One of the drawings I made in the lonely room of an empty Roman hotel. I thought we were trapped there forever, with the plague waiting right outside the door. Looking back, it feels like a vacation. Sometimes I overhear the news about someone still working on figuring it out. The Covid pandemic gave us some things we would never obtain otherwise. Remote jobs became a thing, which changed the way we look at work in general, for instance. Personally, I learned to play tennis during the total lockdown, since my home is blessed with a tennis court right in front of it. I painted a lot, my overall artistic skills spiked significantly, because there was nothing else I could do to distract myself inside the four walls. I got an incredibly bizarre experience of living in an empty hotel in the centre of Rome, because my husband was working on a movie at the time, and I was allowed to travel with him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/943d8549-9e59-454b-946e-119f3f6f65a6/buren.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - The Calamity Routines - Hanging Painting, June 1972 in 'Invitation to Read as an Indication of What There Is to See'," [gallery] Sperone, Rome, Italy. Such a format of installation is hardly new for contemporary art: in the early 70s, Daniel Buren started installing his iconic striped textile in the historical European courtyards. He named them “Peinture-Sculture” (Painting-sculpture), suggesting his work possesses the qualities of both mediums. He insisted on creating an artwork that would fit the very place where it is being installed, transforming its essence. However, while Buren’s work is an example of an institutional critique that tries to lure the art out of the museum’s walls, the accent on the place where it is being installed is the key to reading the artwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/a6e6eb34-3a8e-4480-b6a1-783fa6928515/bakum1.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - The Calamity Routines - Tania Bakum. Before the World Ends, I Shall Wash the Windows, bed linen, cyanotype. 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist. When I saw the installation Before the World Ends, I Shall Wash the Windows by a Ukrainian artist Tania Bakum, I thought, this is it. This is the ultimate visualisation of the search for normality at times that are anything but normal. Imagine one of those courtyards in the middle of the urban maze. It is hard to say whether this space is considered interior or exterior in relation to the buildings around it. The silence inside of it is interrupted by the sounds of television, the gentle clinking of the plates, and voices, all flowing from the open windows that face the courtyard. The eventual fastidious revving of a motorbike outside the gate. Everything here is so normal and mundane that one occasionally begins dropping an ear on a neighbour’s domestic fight, out of curiosity and boredom. The residents use this space to their liking, for gardening, a quick smoke before entering their home (using a nameless tin can as an ashtray), or for drying the white linen bed sheets they kept from their grandparents' place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/62c06412-cbac-4671-b7bf-fcf0a7ed867a/bakum+3.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - The Calamity Routines - Make it stand out Tania Bakum. Before the World Ends, I Shall Wash the Windows, bed linen, cyanotype. 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/6a5c1f5f-fb3e-40fe-92ae-f7d5bd97cfa5/bakum+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - The Calamity Routines - Make it stand out Tania Bakum. Before the World Ends, I Shall Wash the Windows, bed linen, cyanotype. 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/a-quest-to-hold-on-to-home monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/c8ac4a82-0b2e-46ed-9ff5-356a004e5509/delice+1.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Quest to Hold on to Home - Make it stand out Flavio Delice, Fos Zetwal #1. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/0c054005-422b-4d3c-a668-d2a04d1f259a/delice+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Quest to Hold on to Home - Make it stand out Flavio Delice, Mas Zetwal #4. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/cd87e191-e28d-4a3d-a590-cbe7ccd80402/004+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Quest to Hold on to Home - Make it stand out Kateryna Aliinyk, 004. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/2b398e99-0350-408f-844a-e3742c14bde0/Ukrainian+Garden+2022.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Quest to Hold on to Home - Make it stand out Kateryna Aliinyk, Ukrainian Garden 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/e7f80adf-a5a9-44f0-966c-cd7e56ad9e74/%D0%93%D0%9E%D0%A2%D0%95%D0%9B%D0%AC_%D0%A3%D0%9A%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%87%D0%9D%D0%90_%D0%9B%D0%A3%D0%93%D0%90%D0%9D%D0%A1%D0%AC%D0%9A.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - A Quest to Hold on to Home - Four-star hotel “Ukraine” in Luhansk, Ukraine. I did not know anything about it, except that it was built by Germans, and that I loved it dearly, spending countless hours around its porticoes and ground-floor balconies. The walls were covered in motifs of a folk carpet, created with red brick of diverse shades. The facade featured elaborate semi-columns, and a set of elegant balconies, and was topped with a baroque fronton that hosted a clock. The border of the roof was a fragile sequence of little arches and spikes. Although the building occupied a lot of space and was quite massive, its architecture made it seem lightweight, porous and fairytail-ish. This hotel felt like a breeze of fresh air in the grey, anonymous industrial landscape. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/on-the-ways-of-remembering-the-present monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/c0726491-325b-4954-aa2a-70ddf8623545/archive.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On the Ways of Remembering the Present - Make it stand out Screenshot from the Archive’s web site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/54724ffb-0b1d-41a4-91e1-52398fe756a5/archive2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On the Ways of Remembering the Present - Make it stand out Monthly view of the Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bc7f046e-b491-4d00-8da8-fb1e11f5d3c8/inga+levi.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On the Ways of Remembering the Present - Make it stand out Inga Levi, Day 313. January 2, 2023. Golden sunset near my house. It's just beautiful in Kyiv today / Overnight, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed all 39 Shahed UAVs launched by the Russians, two Orlan-59 drones and one X-59 guided missile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/a5e83d5b-d78b-4453-b609-f5a33bfe4c16/640px-Nella_Last.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - On the Ways of Remembering the Present - Nella Last with her youngest son Clifford, Telegraph Media. In addition to well-known diaries like Anne Frank’s, which offers a poignant view of Amsterdam during the Holocaust, there are other such accounts. For example, Nella Last, a British housewife who volunteered for the Mass Observation project [7], recorded a significant civilian perspective on World War II, shedding light on everyday life during wartime. While fundamentally personal, diaries present first-hand accounts that complement official historical records. As a unique source, diaries contribute to the formation of collective memory through a bottom-up approach. Rather than an institution compiling information for a narrative, it is the community that engages with a relatable source, either confirming shared experiences or debating their significance. In any case, this process fosters a dialogue around both the event and the source itself. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/institutional-heartbreak monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/raisons-dtre monthly 0.5 2024-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/e7b040aa-4404-41ac-8036-08e881ea7009/Grycia.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - This Blog, My Research, and Their Raisons D'être - Grycja Erde, 2009. Collage, courtesy of the artist. Grycja Erde, 2009. Collage, courtesy of the artist. https://www.aquietcatalyst.com/a-quiet-catalyst/force-and-counterforce-ukrainian-arts-response-to-russian-colonization monthly 0.5 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/9c90641b-4ef2-49af-a03e-7e99def7d639/table+1.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Table 1: Archaic and Modern Spelling of Ukrainian Place Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/8c2aebf1-8a5e-4c26-978d-33c75c32044e/table+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Table 2: Centre Pompidou Web Site Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/1ee7d738-8474-4087-ae47-70273c7cb382/Palianytsia2.png A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 7: Zhanna Kadyrova, Palianytsia 2022. Courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/4ef46755-9382-480c-8cfd-af5baf65de97/kakhidze+russian+responsibility.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 5: Alevtina Kakhidze, The So-Called “Russian Avant Garde”, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/dd779611-8192-40cb-8343-fcb1852f5653/ralko+peace+dove.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 2: Peace Dove, Vlada Ralko, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/fe040ca1-0959-4ebe-b427-4a1f45cf17d7/kakhidze+bucha.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 4: Alevtina Kakhidze, 17 Minutes by Car, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/72632dfe-4822-410e-b0f3-67d86623b4da/ralko+the+birth+of+evil.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 3: The Birth of Evil, Vlada Ralko, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/84611d29-ff3d-4496-accc-5a7d45c7c5aa/Data+extraction+2022.png A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 6: Zhanna Kadyrova, Data Extraction project 2022. Courtesy of the artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bf505b22-4012-4eff-8954-4a59d5a1c15e/Russian_Dancers_MET_DT3112.jpg A Quiet Catalyst - Force and Counterforce: Ukrainian Art’s Response to Russian Colonisation - Make it stand out Figure 1: Dancers in Ukrainian Dress, Edgar Degas, 1899. 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Per gentile concessione dell'artista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/1ee7d738-8474-4087-ae47-70273c7cb382/Palianytsia2.png A Quiet Catalyst Ita - Force and Counterforce: La resistenza dell'arte ucraina alla colonizzazione russa - Make it stand out Figura 7: Palianytsia, Zhanna Kadyrova, 2022. Per gentile concessione dell'artista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bf505b22-4012-4eff-8954-4a59d5a1c15e/Russian_Dancers_MET_DT3112.jpg A Quiet Catalyst Ita - Force and Counterforce: La resistenza dell'arte ucraina alla colonizzazione russa - Make it stand out Figura 1: Danzatrici in abito ucraino, Edgar Degas, 1899. Collezione Robert Lehman, 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/8c2aebf1-8a5e-4c26-978d-33c75c32044e/table+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst Ita - Force and Counterforce: La resistenza dell'arte ucraina alla colonizzazione russa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/72632dfe-4822-410e-b0f3-67d86623b4da/ralko+the+birth+of+evil.jpg A Quiet Catalyst Ita - Force and Counterforce: La resistenza dell'arte ucraina alla colonizzazione russa - Make it stand out Figura 3: La nascita del male, Vlada Ralko, 2022. 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Надано художницею. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/8c2aebf1-8a5e-4c26-978d-33c75c32044e/table+2.jpg A Quiet Catalyst UA - дія і протидія: реакція українського мистецтва на російську колонізацію - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/1ee7d738-8474-4087-ae47-70273c7cb382/Palianytsia2.png A Quiet Catalyst UA - дія і протидія: реакція українського мистецтва на російську колонізацію - Make it stand out (Рис. 7) Паляниця, Жанна Кадирова, 2022. Надано художницею. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bf505b22-4012-4eff-8954-4a59d5a1c15e/Russian_Dancers_MET_DT3112.jpg A Quiet Catalyst UA - дія і протидія: реакція українського мистецтва на російську колонізацію - Make it stand out (Рис. 1) Танцівниці в українському вбранні, Едгар Дега, 1899. Колекція Роберта Лемана, 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bc0d7f94-1cc2-4236-bc4d-2cea54447d01/Russian+Rocket.png A Quiet Catalyst UA - дія і протидія: реакція українського мистецтва на російську колонізацію - Make it stand out (Рис. 8) Russian Rocket, Жанна Кадирова, 2022. Надано художницею. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/bc5cca5c-7933-484d-9ebd-0de66f8ee6a0/ralko+the+birth+of+evil.jpg A Quiet Catalyst UA - дія і протидія: реакція українського мистецтва на російську колонізацію - Make it stand out (Рис. 3) Народження зла, Влада Ралко, 2022. 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The world of things. He was not an easy man, but he was smart, very well educated, and sharp-minded. He occupied leadership positions in engineering for most of his life, and was very appreciated by his colleagues for his just and honest nature. He could tell right from wrong, but it did not stop him from being a total shithead. He had hurt the feelings of everyone he had known, and hurt them hard. He knew that, and I know he was sorry, but he never managed to squeeze an apology. Years of heavy drinking and smoking cost a total misery to our family in his final years. He had a stroke during my last year of school, and forgot most of the words. Seeing this brilliant man confuse a microwave with a washing machine was tragicomic. My grandma would tease him sometimes, and he would laugh bitterly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/1750677404312-ESOZ4D4ARK5IPWP9JDH7/IMG_1406.jpg Ukrainian Diary - May 10-11. 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Most people go there to patch up some health issues that have been bugging them, take a walk in nature and spend time with their loved ones. Definitely too many kids for my taste, and a questionable use of resources: the building is completed with a water park and a bunch of small colourful constructions that spread around a large territory under a mountain. A small house next to it has a garden, with hens and geese, and it looks like it has been standing there since the beginning of time. At some point of this house’s life, a huge, ugly thing grew in front of it, blocking the luxurious mountain view it enjoyed for ages. Gentrification spreads everywhere, and I think it makes me sad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/0bb7e62b-fde8-45ed-b44d-7c400820c9c5/IMG_1198.jpg Ukrainian Diary - May 2 - 4. Nature will take over. A few dozen meters into the woods, there is a tree arrayed in little pieces of beaded jewellery - Ukrainian gerdans. They hand off the branches here and there, some of the jewels are visibly old, others seem more recent. Someone chose this tree as an altar, a meeting place with the forces of nature. Someone decided to come bearing gifts to the forest spirits, to sweeten their temper and soothe their senses. Somehow, this discovery did not seem unexpected at all. It matched perfectly the enchanted atmosphere of the place. I stayed there a while, studying the gifts. It did not even cross my mind to take anything away: it belonged here, on the uncharted trail, on a tree that meant so much to someone. I took the closest piece, took a photo of it, and placed it right back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674833119e18d41dfc8e420a/88848ca4-9555-4817-aad7-3de125104309/IMG_1155.jpg Ukrainian Diary - May 2 - 4. 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