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UKRAINE PAVILION AT THE ARSENALE  Net Making 
 

Two years into the Russian invasion, the Ukraine Pavilion will present Net Making: a group exhibition co-curated by Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi. Sharing similarities with the themes in the main exhibition at the Biennale Foreigner’s Everywhere, the Ukraine pavilion collects a diversity of voices responding to the fundamentally othering effect of war.  The exhibition title refers to the practice of citizens of all ages and backgrounds meeting to weave camouflage nets, which has become a symbol of the collective resistance of everyday Ukrainians.

Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi will present the film Civilians. Invasion which tells the story of the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion through the eyes of survivors using open source videos and private YouTube channels. The artists note “this film is a horror encyclopaedia, capturing the harrowing experiences people endure during a full-scale invasion.”

Katya Buchatska is collaborating with 15 neurodivergent artists to explore language and civility as both comforting and absurd when faced with war. Under full-scale invasion, “Life went on, days passed, birthdays came. We wished each other happy birthday on every occasion, and gradually, the language clichés became increasingly obtrusive and incongruous, alienated from us.’ 

Comfort Work is a video series by Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva reflecting on Ukrainian refugee communities across Europe, highlighting stereotypes and expectations, and creating a safe space for Ukrainians with experience of displacement to reclaim their agency.