“Bold Lines, Fragile Lines” nga Olia Fedorova te “Zeta Contemporary Art Center” Tiranë
ZETA Contemporary Art Center has the pleasure to invite you to the solo exhibition Bold Lines, Fragile Lines by Olia Fedorova.
🥂 May 27, 19:00
🗓 May 27 – June 13
📍 ZETA Contemporary Art Center
In this project, the artist continues working with the landscapes of her homeland – Ukraine – through maps. Maps reduce landscapes to clusters of lines, they do not reflect all those tragic changes and ruination they went through because of the Russian full scale invasion in reality. They don’t show anyhow nature’s resilience and will to survive in the middle of catastrophe either. But at the same time they serve as an instrument of documentation of the landscapes, preserving them in the state they were once depicted.
The exhibition brings together two series of artworks.
🧵 Maps of the Defence Lines consists of embroidered representations of Ukrainian rivers — rivers that have suffered deeply from the war, yet at the same time have served, and continue to serve, as powerful natural defence lines, delaying or preventing the further advance of Russian troops.
⚫ Wound in the shape of the northeastern border of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a black curtain embroidered with a line tracing the mentioned borderline between Ukraine and Russia. On February 24, 2022, Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border in countless locations, one of them being this exact border, just 40 km from Kharkiv — the artist’s hometown. To this day, the border remains a site of ongoing battles and a constant source of threat.
The exhibition is realized as part of Olia Fedorova’s residency in Tirana within the framework of the Foreign Atelier Stipend Program by Land Steiermark (County of Styria, Austria).
