Galerie Raum mit Licht

Kaiserstraße 32, 1070 Vienna

Soft
Opening: 06.09.2022

Duration:
07.09. - 14.10.2022, Tue – Fr 14:00 – 18:00 and by appointments

Guided
Tour: 10.09.2022, 10:00 - 14:00

With works
by: Anatoliy Babiychuk, Zoya Laktionova,
Lada Nakonechna, Olena Newkryta, Oleksiy Radynski, Anna Sorokovaya & Taras
Kovach, Anastasiya Yarovenko

Curated by:
Olena Newkryta, Anastasiya Yarovenko

Exhibition
text: Aleksei Borisionok

The exhibition Preserving
the Shape curated by the artists Olena Newkryta & Anastasiya Yarovenko presents art works that approach
notions of collective action and subjectivity, material and immaterial
heritage, and its survival. It focuses on various ways of how a collective,
communal or cultural identity could be nourished in the context of current
russian imperial warfare, destruction of living environments and public
institutions. In contrast to cultural assets that can be preserved artificially
via conservation or museum displays, community is a fragile and precarious
entity that becomes and remains only through forms of mutual care, social
plasticity and solidarity. Preserving the
Shape brings together documentary and conceptual works by Ukrainian artists
that are part of a self-organised world-making and embody an utopian or bygone
collectivity.