The exhibition "OWN/OTHERS' people, memories, things PANKIVSKAYA, 9" as a project of today's cultural front was born of the war.
Description
The exhibition "OWN/OTHERS' people, memories, things PANKIVSKAYA, 9", like most of the projects of today's cultural front, was born of the war. On her very first day, her unstoppable desire was to "close the sky" over our House - the Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Museum. In the following years, they already took care of themselves, dismantled, moved, secured, as if sorting through the last 30 years of life in their hands. After all, the day before, February 3, the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the museum was completed.
Then we painfully wandered through the empty halls, and a feeling of déjà vu came over us: we've seen it before, it's already happened. Here are the same empty rooms, a cold echo. It was in the mid-1990s, when "strangers" were evicted from the house, who, according to Maria Hrushevska, began to appear here in 1938 after relatives were arrested. Then we thought with some anxiety: "What next? And what to fill this space?".
"And what's next? What will our exhibition be like after the Victory, nurtured by our ideas, filled with returned memorial items and revived traditions?", we have been thinking for the last 7 months...
And so in these minutes and days of "scrolling" the past and thinking about the future, the idea to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the museum was born. To recall who was 30, who was 15, who was 5 years old, to remember and tell our guests about how they studied the fate of Hrushevsky's belongings and returned them to their places, who helped, who preserved memories and memories. And how often "strangers" became "their own", cherished even the broken shards of coffee cups, doorknobs, doorbells and other, at first glance, little things.
In the end, the performance consisted of separate "stories" that combined human destinies, memories and surviving memories in laconic complexes. One of these "stories" is a collective image called "We." After all, we were completely strangers by blood and became "ours" for this House, which accepted us, opening the door for creativity. The history of "We" is represented by the voices of the residents of the House recorded over 30 years, videos and our memories.
"OWN/OTHERS" is not only about people. It is also about things - museum objects. After all, our credo - "do not use other people's things, because your own will not be returned" - was, is and will remain decisive in the concept of the memorial exposition.
A symbol of emotions will also remain indispensable: a bouquet of mallows, presented by Kateryna Hrushevska to Maria's mother shortly before her arrest in July 1938; a bouquet, "dry of course already", which stood all 10 years that Maria Sylvestrivna was waiting for her dearest; a bouquet-image that was exhibited for 15 years and survived the war.
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Ticket price:
Adult - UAH 100.
Preferential - 40 hryvnias.


