Program

Wiktoria Wojciechowska’s Sparks is an interdisciplinary project portraying the war in Donbas. Created between winter 2014 and summer 2016 the project is centered around a series of portraits of young, regular people, coming from different backgrounds, who had to leave their lives and go to the frontline, become soldiers of war. The project is a polyphonic image comprised of photography, video, collages and stories. The artist has also included both her own material and sources provided by the soldiers and civilians, in her work. Subsequent series of works in the exhibition create an image of personal experience of a human faced with terrors of war, as well as personal and collective memory.

The project involved contributions from many persons with strong experience of the war in Donbas. After being presented in numerous exhibitions around Europe and gathering a list of prizes awarded, the exhibition broth the project to Lviv to present it for the first time in Ukraine, to the people who helped in its creation.