Meni dosi soromno vykydaty izhu. Babusia rozpovidala meni pro Holodomor
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Serie Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers Series
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This project arose as a result of visual research using post-photographic practices, dedicated to modern everyday manifestations of historical traumas of the twentieth century, as well as representative opportunities of photography as a medium in the representation of traumatic events.
Every time I throw away food for any reason, I feel ashamed of it. There is no logical reason for this feeling - I can afford not to eat what I do not want to eat, and this can not help someone or save someone. It's just leftover food on a plate - but I'm still ashamed.
This feeling is not rooted in logic, but rather in my post-memory (in the words of Marianne Hirsch): as a child, my grandmother told me various stories from her life, and among other things there were memories of the Holodomor. And this shame for thrown away food comes from there, from stories about how my family survived this famine.
To illustrate this and understand this feeling, we documented traces of all the food we threw away for two months. Then from this documentation made collages with fragments of the found photos on which elements of a landscape are present.
Why landscape? Because, unlike the traces left by famine in our (like many other Ukrainians - descendants of Holodomor survivors) post-memory, there are no traces left in the physical space - unlike the vast majority of other collective traumas that still exist in the landscape as a place of memory.
