Zhanna Kadyrova: Flying Trajectories

The exhibition travels, through geography and time, systematically embodying a shared historical past that inhabits Ukrainian public space. It addresses Ukraine as a country in a process of self-definition. Giving way to different trajectories that simultaneously come into existence often going through acts of destruction or violence.

This leads to one of the most central rooms in the exhibition dealing directly with the reality of physical violence. It shows a horizon of Shots (2022-2023) displayed together with the work Harmless War (2023), white-painted geometrical forms using metal sheets that have been pierced by shrapnel. The metal plates are evidences of war. Kadyrova reduces those material evidences to forms which are welcomed by the traditional gaze of a Western art audience. It becomes one of her most provocative gestures.