Join artist Jan Bačynsjkyj and curator of the exhibition Privileged Refugee Wiktoria Tundys for Artist Talk accompanying the show. Two films by Jan Bačynsjkyj will be screened during the meeting. The first one will be 90s 2022, days of the war, a documentary about the artists who stayed in Ukraine following the Russian invasion. Jan Bačynsjkyj will also show My “Grandfather`s skin” (2020), a story about a collective grandfather created through using the induction method, i.e. searching for the collective image of the common past through individual knowledge.
Bačynsjkyj will present his work and the path that shaped his current narrative in chronologic order. He will share a queer perspective on war experiences and talk about the activities of the Queer war archive, documenting LGBTQIA+ people during the armed conflict in Ukraine. The meeting will serve as a direct forum to discuss Jan Bačynsjkyj’s work and research with the artist.
Yana Bachynska / Jan Bačynsjkyj (born 1991 in Lviv) is multimedia artist, film director and sculptor working in the field of engaged art. He graduated in philosophy from the National University of Taras Shevchenko in Kiev (2013) and multimedia at the Academy of Art in Szczecin (2019). He is the co-founder of Art Platform (2013) through which we was actively involved in inhibiting the processes of gentrification through creating a non-governmental cultural center. In his practice, he focuses on the topics of queer narrative, gender identity and historical memory. He has participated in numerous artistic residencies and international exhibitions, including: Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2022) or Coming out of Isolation 2.0 in Ukraine (2020).