‘It’s essential for understanding what is going on in Ukraine’: new exhibition explores wartime limb loss

Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan will open a new exhibition, A New Integrity, on 11 April at Pavilion 13 in Kyiv, addressing wartime limb loss as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year. The installation features prostheses “running” in mid-air on a stage, accompanied by a soundscape by Clemens Poole and recorded testimonies from veterans interviewed for the project. Actress Anastasiia Seheda voices the testimonies, while sociologist Sofia Lavreniuk conducted the interviews; participants’ names have been changed, and Kadan says the work avoids showing bodies or faces. Commissioned by the non-profit RIBBONInternational, the year-long project will be shown in Pavilion 13, a restored 1967 glass-walled brutalist building originally created as a Soviet-era coal-industry exhibition space.

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