Apr 12, 2023 - May 7, 2023
Anna Perepechai, Going Home. Morning in the night train to Lviv., from the series Seems like home (2014 – ongoing), Train to Lviv, Ukraine, 2019
Description: For a long time, I have never dreamt of living abroad. But in 2013 I signed a year-long volunteer contract that allowed me to gain experience in arts & culture in Germany. This has developed into art studies. One year has now been extended to nine. My unplanned and temporary migration to Germany is connected with the strong feeling of guilt that I still carry with me. Although it was always clear that with all the gained experience I will return to Ukraine at some point, I felt like a traitor, because I left my country in difficult times. My way of coping with this was to stay connected and to do work in Europe that would bring more attention and understanding to Ukraine. So I could be useful abroad, so I could somehow change the displaced image of the East in Germany. During the years, my regular stays in Ukraine have developed into a photographic project "Seems like Home". It is a personal visual reflection of times spent in my homeland as a Ukrainian, but a temporary citizen/visitor. It is a visual diary, which constitutes my home. Everything is mixed here: nostalgia, kitsch, irony, and honesty. Family, friends, objects, places – from the capital to the deepest province. This photo was taken in the winter of 2019 when I was going home via a night train over Lviv. Back then the windows in our trains were not taped yet.
Paper Dimensions: 35 x 28 cm | 13 25/32 x 11 1/32 inch
Limited edition out of artist’s print: 1 of 10 available on Bidsquare
Anna Perepechai is a Ukrainian artist and former journalist, who has been living, working, and studying in Germany since 2014. In her artistic practice, she deals on a visual and textual level with socio-political issues and transformations, especially within post-Soviet societies as well as in public and private spaces. Since 2014 she has also been dealing with the Soviet legacy and its misinterpretations as well as russia’s imperial and colonial policies in her native Ukraine and in Germany from the perspective of an Eastern European migrant. Within her works, her interest in the analog process is often evident. Thus, especially when photography as an object itself comes to the fore, she also works with experimental, camera-less produced images. Her shift between the conceptual documentary and the experimental is always perceptible, opening up levels of contextualization that can be freely interpreted.
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