{"id":3763,"date":"2022-08-22T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.wpengine.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2022-11-10T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:01:00","slug":"holodomor_memorial_in_melitopol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/en\/holodomor_memorial_in_melitopol\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition for memorial projects in memory of the Holodomors victims in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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In 2021, representatives of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, expressed their intention to erect a memorial to the Holodomors victims in Ukraine. In order to implement the plan on a professional level, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Ukraine initiated a closed competition of projects supported by the local authorities. The partner of the competition became the cultural memory platform Past \/ Future \/ Art.<\/p>\n

Such deep social traumas, the famines of 1921\u20131923, 1932\u20131933, and 1946\u20131947, require relevant approaches. Today, in Ukraine, the search for a language, especially an artistic language, which would allow us to speak of historical tragedies continues. Modern commemorative practices that actively use the means of art help to find appropriate solutions.<\/p>\n

To implement the project in Melitopol, the Foundation invited an expert council, which included professionals from the fields of art, commemorative practices and architecture, led by the art critic Lizaveta German. The council members conducted a preliminary study and invited five contenders to take part in the competition. They developed proposals for the memorial with detailed descriptions of the concept, visualizations, technical requirements and implementation plans. The competition granted the artists a pioneering opportunity to conceive projects for such a complex and underdeveloped subject in the field of contemporary art as the Holodomors.<\/p>\n

In the fall of 2021, the expert council chose the winner \u2014 Daniil Shumikhin. His object The Column has been recommended for the installment in Melitopol. An opening of the memorial was planned for November 2022.<\/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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PARTICIPANTS<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n
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Vitaliy Kokhan<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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artist who works with the following media: painting, graphics, installation, photography, video, land art<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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artists, researchers. They work with the themes of trauma, postmemory, subjectivity and representation of vulnerable population groups<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Pavlo Kovach<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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artist, curator, participant of the Open Group artistic collective. He works with the themes of real and fictional life, stories and characters<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n

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Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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artistic duo who work with different visual arts media as directors, artists, and cinematographers<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Daniil Shumikhin<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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artist and sculptor. The primary themes of his creative work are memory, rethinking of history and information<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n

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WINNER<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n
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Daniil Shumikhin \/ Working title The \u0421olumn<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Through the centuries, the column has been supporting human constructions and bridging the sky and the earth. Mimicking nature, the human has granted the column various meanings, calling it the Tree of Life, the World Tree, and decorating it with floristic elements.<\/p>\n

In Melitopol, one may encounter many columns and their types built in the different times of the city’s existence. Among them, the columns of the Tavria State Agrotechnological University stand out. Their capitals are decorated with ions, petals, and ears of wheat, intimate and intelligible to the Ukrainians symbols of prosperity and fertility.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n

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It is worth noting that the college (gardening technical school) was founded in 1931, just a year before the Holodomor in Ukraine, and, probably, was envisioned to strengthen the southern agricultural sector, improving the numbers of agricultural production.<\/p>\n

The column of the Holodomors memorial complex, made from cast iron, revives the motives of the college columns. The material and the natural aging process reveal to the spectator the time flow with its bright and dark sides, creating the dialogue between the past and the present. Long since the solitary columns have been recording historical events. Today, they endure as memory symbols in different places across the globe.<\/p>\n

Visualization by \u0424\u041e\u0420\u041c\u0410<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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