- Film & Video
- Photography
MEMORIES FROM PAST LIVES
Katya Ganusenko
3 July 2026 19:00 – 4 July 2026 00:00
4 July 2026 12:00 – 5 July 2026 00:00
5 July 2026 12:00–19:00
MEMORIES FROM PAST LIVES explores personal history and the formation of identity in the context of shifting political and symbolic borders. The exhibition brings together archival materials created between 2010 and 2025 in Luhansk, Kyiv, and other locations across Ukraine.
The project includes personal photographs taken with analog cameras alongside a documentary film. Through these materials, the exhibition reflects on the changing meaning of home and the ways in which personal memory is shaped by political transformation, territorial conflict, and displacement.
At the center of the exhibition is the idea of home as a flexible and unstable concept. Political pressure, the tightening of borders, and forced migration contribute to the gradual erasure of childhood and youth memories connected to specific places - both symbolically and literally.
The works trace the formation of the artist’s identity under conditions of prolonged uncertainty and psychological stress, where separation from the past becomes unavoidable and return is no longer possible. At the same time, the project reveals a political dimension of identity: first experiencing displacement within one’s own country, and later navigating the condition of global displacement following emigration to Germany.
Through personal archives, MEMORIES FROM PAST LIVES considers home as a fragile construct - one that can be dismantled, redefined, or lost through violence, migration, and enforced separation from place. The remaining fragments of memory persist as images, documents, and emotional traces.
The project includes personal photographs taken with analog cameras alongside a documentary film. Through these materials, the exhibition reflects on the changing meaning of home and the ways in which personal memory is shaped by political transformation, territorial conflict, and displacement.
At the center of the exhibition is the idea of home as a flexible and unstable concept. Political pressure, the tightening of borders, and forced migration contribute to the gradual erasure of childhood and youth memories connected to specific places - both symbolically and literally.
The works trace the formation of the artist’s identity under conditions of prolonged uncertainty and psychological stress, where separation from the past becomes unavoidable and return is no longer possible. At the same time, the project reveals a political dimension of identity: first experiencing displacement within one’s own country, and later navigating the condition of global displacement following emigration to Germany.
Through personal archives, MEMORIES FROM PAST LIVES considers home as a fragile construct - one that can be dismantled, redefined, or lost through violence, migration, and enforced separation from place. The remaining fragments of memory persist as images, documents, and emotional traces.
Biography
Katya Ganusenko
Katya Ganusenko was born on March 27, 1997, in Luhansk.
She began practicing film photography at the age of 13, developing this interest over many years. From 2014 to 2018, she earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She devoted a significant part of her work to the urban and architectural project TRSHCHN platform. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Kyiv, curated an exhibition in Berlin, and applies artistic methods of deconstruction in fashion as well. Overall, her work navigates between postmodernist concepts and personal sentiments.
This exhibition reflects her personal journey and the formation of identity through a large archive of memories that continue to shape her creative practice.
She began practicing film photography at the age of 13, developing this interest over many years. From 2014 to 2018, she earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She devoted a significant part of her work to the urban and architectural project TRSHCHN platform. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Kyiv, curated an exhibition in Berlin, and applies artistic methods of deconstruction in fashion as well. Overall, her work navigates between postmodernist concepts and personal sentiments.
This exhibition reflects her personal journey and the formation of identity through a large archive of memories that continue to shape her creative practice.
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