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Ukrainian Paradise: Exhibition within the PAC UA programme
Ukrainian Paradise collects and questions images, slogans, and symbols currently idealized in Ukrainian society. They reach us through vibrant popular culture, created by different people and institutions. For example, 鈥淏ayraktarshchyna鈥�, regarded as in poor taste by some while unconditionally embraced by others, comes into our focus. This layer of popular culture, filled with manifestations of national identity in wartime, is an inexhaustible reservoir of information about public moods, aspirations, and dreams. Therefore, it is essential that we no longer ignore this aspect of culture and instead approach it closely.
Ukrainian Paradise is a headquarters that reflects the state of being in which the need to serve the demands of war is shaping daily life and all culture. As a result, purely practical things and pragmatic ideas have become sacred in the Ukrainian Paradise, saturating spontaneous popular culture and influencing its heroes and symbols.
After all, Ukrainian Paradise is very specific: it is a symbolically and materially overloaded space where weapons and dead Russians chaotically intersect with comic images of Dog Patron, optimistic slogans like 鈥淕ood evening, we are from Ukraine!鈥�, and a large number of national symbols.
Ukrainian Paradise collects and questions images, slogans, and symbols currently idealized in Ukrainian society. They reach us through vibrant popular culture, created by different people and institutions. For example, 鈥淏ayraktarshchyna鈥�, regarded as in poor taste by some while unconditionally embraced by others, comes into our focus. This layer of popular culture, filled with manifestations of national identity in wartime, is an inexhaustible reservoir of information about public moods, aspirations, and dreams. Therefore, it is essential that we no longer ignore this aspect of culture and instead approach it closely.
Ukrainian Paradise is a headquarters that reflects the state of being in which the need to serve the demands of war is shaping daily life and all culture. As a result, purely practical things and pragmatic ideas have become sacred in the Ukrainian Paradise, saturating spontaneous popular culture and influencing its heroes and symbols.
After all, Ukrainian Paradise is very specific: it is a symbolically and materially overloaded space where weapons and dead Russians chaotically intersect with comic images of Dog Patron, optimistic slogans like 鈥淕ood evening, we are from Ukraine!鈥�, and a large number of national symbols.
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