"The first (2023), presented as a two-channel video work by Ukrainian artists Malashchuk & Khimei. They are both shot at a rave in Kyiv, except one of the works was filmed in 2019 and the other a few years after the full scale invasion. Using similar shots, cutting the installation is Dedicated to the Youth of the World II (2019) and Dedicated to the Youth of the World III videos at the same time, and featuring faces with an uncanny resemblance, the duo marry the two screens with the same pulsating score. This choice renders the difference in time inscrutable. The vibe of the rave has, by all appearances, remained the same despite the unspoken event that separates the two. In a sense, the joy prevails."
"Behind this, with the music still playing in the background, the first in a series of letters printed on sparkling foam panels opens the show. It's written by Hlib Stryzhko, a Ukrainian veteran and Marine. He talks about how a guard had given him a strawberry chocolate bar while he was taken into captivity by Russian forces. He's lost some teeth, so the guard instructs him to warm the candy underneath his legs to make it easier to eat. There is a kind of melancholic happiness that this sugary treat and m"
The exhibition “Still Joy - From Ukraine Into the World” is presented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre as a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennial of Art. It includes a two-channel video work by Ukrainian artists Malashchuk & Khimei, filmed at a Kyiv rave, with one version shot in 2019 and another after the full-scale invasion. Similar shots and a shared pulsating score make the time difference hard to discern, suggesting that the rave’s energy persists. The show also features letters printed on sparkling foam panels, including a message by Ukrainian veteran and Marine Hlib Stryzhko describing a guard’s strawberry chocolate bar during captivity and instructions to warm it under his legs to eat more easily.
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