4 May, 6pm – 8pm
RSVP
Home
Ukrainian Photography inspiring UK Words
Open Eye Gallery invites you to the launch of the UK’s largest showcase of Ukrainian photography, Home, developed with 49 partners and 44 sites across Liverpool City Region as part of EuroFestival.
Welcoming speeches from:
Tetyana Filevska, Creative Director, Ukrainian Institute
Claire McColgan, CBE, Director of Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council
Jane Beardsworth, Senior Manager, Arts Council England
Singing Our Socks Off choir will sing welcome songs about belonging together at 6 pm. Speeches 6.30 pm.
The launch will celebrate:
- 11 new commissions by Ukrainian photographers & UK poets, creating diptychs in public spaces and on Merseyrail sites;
- 6 exhibitions featuring 20 Ukrainian photographers across 6 cultural venues;
- an app inviting people to 5 Home Trails taking you to 25 independent dwell spaces hosting a Ukrainian artwork and encouraging everyone to collect the postcard and respond with their own words;
- a book, a zine, a film, a school activity pack, a new writing competition, poetry readings, community workshops and events.
Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi, curators, said: “We believe that the visibility of Ukrainian culture is vital for its decolonisation, which, in turn, is a prerequisite for securing our identity and the right to own our history and future.
The exhibition has been created in a dialogue between the Ukrainian, European and British photography sectors and presents diverse approaches to work with the photographic medium and different perspectives on Ukraine’s past and present”.
Sarah Fisher, director of Open Eye Gallery, said: “Home as about the celebration and survival of Ukrainian culture amidst more urgent survival, and Open Eye Gallery team are proud to stand with Ukraine as they fight for their home.
Our era of international sharing online sees people uploading 2 billion photographs per day. Photography is now the international language of democracy. Home’s photographers reveal Ukrainians’ current experience, and as importantly, fundamental human values that underpin our idea of ‘home’: family and friends in a safe space, the beautiful landscapes of our home country, human creativity and the culture within which we recognise ourselves – our identity”.
Commissioned for EuroFestival by Culture Liverpool / Liverpool City Council.
The Home programme was made meaningful through collaboration between Open Eye Gallery and Ukrainian. Photographies, and we would like to thank the following:
UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Anatoliy BABIYCHUK, Valentine BO, Oleksandr BURLAKA, Igor CHEKACHKOV, Alexander CHEKMENEV, Andrii DOSTLIEV, Lia DOSTLIEVA, Maryna FROLOVA, Nazar FURYK, Sasha KURMAZ, Viktor MARUSHCHENKO, Mykhaylo PALINCHAK, Evgeniy PAVLOV, Polina POLIK ARPOVA, Victoria PIDUST, Viacheslav POLIAKOV, Andriy RACHYNSKYI, Anton SHEBETKO, Yaroslav SOLOP, Elena SUBACH, Daria SVERTILOVA.
UK POETS:
John HEGLEY, Hanan ISSA, Jackie KAY, Roger MCGOUGH (CBE), James CONOR PATTERSON, Deryn REES-JONES.
FUNDERS:
DCMS
The British Council
Spirit of 2012
Arts Council England
SUPPORTERS:
Ukrainian Institute
Liverpool ONE
Liverpool BID
HOME DELIVERY PARTNERS:
ace & tate, Arthouse Traffic Films, ArtReview, Arts Bar Baltic, BITA, Bold Street Coffee, C&D Properties, Dead Ink Books, dot-art, Edgehill University, Engage, European Poetry Festival, Hafla Hafla, Hurricane Films, Keith’s, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool Bid, Liverpool Arts Bar, Liverpool Culture Team, Liverpool One, Liverpool Poetry Space, Max Literacy, MerseyMade, Merseyrail, MerseyFerry, Norton Priory, Nova Scotia, Ocean Outdoor, Open Culture, Press Bros, Ropes and Twines, Shenanigans, Singing Our Socks Off Community Choir, SUP, Tempest, Tilly Hire, The Atkinson, The Brink, The Double Negative, The Egg Cafe, The Poetry Society, The World of Glass Museum, UCEN – Manchester, Ukrainian Institute, Unity Theatre, University of Liverpool, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Windows, 92 degrees (Hardman St, Baltic and Southport).
HOME GUEST CURATORS:
Kateryna Filyuk, Ben Harman, Louise Pearson, Monika Szewczyk, Amelie Schüle, Lindsay Taylor.
AT HOME GUEST WRITERS:
Sarah Hymas, Saul Leslie, Bernadette McBride, Anita Pati, Oleksandra Pron, Deryn Rees-Jones, Pauline Rowe, David Tierney.
With kind support from EuroFestival and Arts Council England. Commissioned by Culture Liverpool / Liverpool City Council.
Image: Igor Chekachkov, from the Daily Lives of the Displaced series, Lviv, Ukraine, 2022
Address:
Open Eye Gallery,
Liverpool, L3 1BP
Open:
10am – 5pm, Tue – Sun
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