Murnopillya

The exposition presents landscapes, household scenes on the territory of Ukrainian land, created by Ukrainian artists, and carefully collected in the AVS-art collection. The gallery curators rethink their annual traditional project, which was usually exhibited in the spring when nature wakes up: "The war destroys not only human soul and flesh - it destroys the soul and flesh of our native land." Along with the usual landscapes, there were small -sized photographs of concentrated pain of our earth - shooting from drones, which recorded a shells from shells, ashes and smoke of burning, destroyed houses and whole "Mars Fields".

By the way, works of artists who lived during the Second World War, in particular, Fedir Manaylo, Leopold Levitsky, Serhiy Shishko, are presented in the artistic part of the Murnopillya exposition. They saw our land in ruins and rags, survived the horrors of war, and still preserved the ability to find life, and show it to us, their audience. This skill is more valuable now that the devastation came to us again.
What carefree we were, surrounded by the beauty of the Ukrainian land, perceiving it as what belongs to us, and is unchanged. It is more painful to look at the photos of ruin made by human hands, the hands of our enemies. And even more so we want to expel the inhumans from our earth, to deprive them of the opportunity to destroy our land. The earth will be revived - it came to life after the Second World War, will recover after that. And in the future, artists will again be able to draw peaceful flowering and life -giving terrain that we love so much. Our Murnopillya. We do not need to learn how to sing it. But we need to learn how to protect it.

The text and photos were prepared by Kateryna Dobrovolska, Imagine Point Gallery for Kyiv Daily