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The cultural memory platform Past \/ Future \/ Art presented an exhibition by Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva “I still feel sorry when I throw away food \u2013 Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor” which took place at the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum<\/a> from December 11, 2021 to January 30, 2022.
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“Every time I throw away (for any of the reasons) potentially good food I subconsciously feel sorry for doing so,” say the artists about the graphic project. “There are no logical reasons behind this sense of guilt \u2014 by all means, I can afford not to eat the food I don’t want to eat. These are only leftovers on the plate \u2014 and yet I feel so sorry.<\/p>\n

This sense originates not in reason but rather in my postmemory (using the term coined by Marianne Hirsch). When I was a kid, my grandma would share with me memories from her childhood and sometimes among them were memories from the early 1930s \u2014 the times of the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine (called the ‘Holodomor’ \u2014 derived from ‘to kill by starvation’ in Ukrainian), which killed, by various estimates, between 2.4 and 7.5 million people. And the guilt I feel now for the thrown-away food takes its origins there, in these stories about my family surviving this hunger.<\/p>\n

To illustrate and to better understand this sense of guilt, I started recording the traces of all the food I’ve been throwing away with this sense. These prints were later collaged with small pieces of found photos depicting fragments of anonymous and unrecognisable landscapes.<\/p>\n

Landscape here is used as a direct opposite of the Holodomor’s traces in postmemory of subsequent generations, since mass deaths by hunger leave no traces in the landscape \u2014 unlike many other massive collective traumas which have their exact geographic locations and their traces can still exist in the landscape in the form of ‘places of memory’.”<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n

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Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, from the series “I still feel sorry when I throw away food \u2014 Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor”, 2018
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A meeting with artists Andrei Dostlev and Lia Dostleva took place on December 18, 2021 and was part of an exhibition at the Odessa National Fine Arts Museum. During the event, the artists spoke about the presented project, as well as about their creative practice.<\/p>\n

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Andrii Dostliev<\/a> and Lia Dostlieva<\/a> are artists and researchers. Both work with the themes of trauma, postmemory, subjectivity and representation of vulnerable population groups. Their works were exhibited in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, etc. Scholarship holders of the program of “Gaude Polonia” from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and Ukraine in the European Dialogue program from the Austrian Institute for Human Sciences (IWM). Their works have been published in such publications as Eurozine, Baltic Worlds, Culture.pl, Korydor and others.<\/p>\n

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