Ukrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography

The display features artwork by 33 individual artists and groups, across four generations of the Kharkiv School of Photography community. Having opted for photography as the main means of their practice, these artists were to work during the oppressive years of Soviet censorship, during the times of the emerging Ukrainian independence and the revolutions, also now, in the thick of the ongoing russian military aggression. They consistently deployed the medium for the trenchant social and aesthetic criticism, kept pushing further the boundaries of photography. Over several hundred of exhibits – photographs, video and archival objects of the exhibition – map the six rebellious and progressive decades, tracing the evolution of methods and ideas, bringing to the foreground the foremost artists and their finest artwork.