Artists
Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei (1996, Kiev, Ukraine) carry out an artistic work that lies between cinema and visual arts, addressing issues related to identity, collective memory and the political tensions present in contemporary Ukraine. Representatives of a generation of creators that emerged after the Euromaidan uprisings, their work focuses on unravelling the stories inherited from the old imperial powers as well as on observing their impact on new generations. Through audiovisual installations and film narratives, the artists show a fragmented reality in which the official story coexists with personal experiences. They pay attention to the fringes, to secondary figures, to what is not usually seen or told, to individual gestures in landscapes marked by conflict and change. They are also members of collectives such as the Prykarpattian Theater, with initiatives like Theater of Hopes and Expectations, presented in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
