FOTODOK / LOST TERRITORIES
FOTODOK / LOST TERRITORIES
FOTODOK presents Lost Territories: Tracing Imperial Violence, a group exhibition by Sputnik Photos, the internationally renowned collective of photographers from Poland. For nearly twenty years, they have been investigating the social, cultural, and political transformations of the former Eastern Bloc, with a focus on East-Central Europe and Central Asia. Lost Territories: Tracing Imperial Violence brings together recent projects by: Jan Brykczyński, Karolina Gembara, Michał Łuczak, Rafał Milach, Adam Pańczuk, and Agnieszka Rayss. In addition, the exhibition offers a retrospective look at the project Lost Territories. This ever-growing archive has been compiled by Sputnik Photos over nearly twenty years. FOTODOK and Sputnik Photos also invited Ukrainian artist Maria Matiashova to add her project EMPIRE EXPIRE to the exhibition. The Russian Empire, later the Soviet Union, and now the Russian Federation, has long employed imperial and colonial strategies of violence, exploitation, and extraction. The exhibition highlights several stories that reveal this continuity, showing how it spans from the past into the present. For instance, in Yangiobod, Michał Łuczak explores the transformation of a mining town in Uzbekistan that was once one of the Soviet Union's main sites for uranium extraction. Uranium is essential for producing nuclear weapons, which Russia inherited as the sole country from the union following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, Russia's military aggression has been backed by nuclear weaponry. Agnieszka Rayss, for her part, in Postcards from the War combines imagery from Soviet postcards with contemporary war photography from Ukraine. She demonstrates how propaganda shaped a 'happy' image of society, when in reality that society was far from peaceful.
FOTODOK presents Lost Territories: Tracing Imperial Violence, a group exhibition by Sputnik Photos, the internationally renowned collective of photographers from Poland. For nearly twenty years, they have been investigating the social, cultural, and political transformations of the former Eastern Bloc, with a focus on East-Central Europe and Central Asia. Lost Territories: Tracing Imperial Violence brings together recent projects by: Jan Brykczyński, Karolina Gembara, Michał Łuczak, Rafał Milach, Adam Pańczuk, and Agnieszka Rayss. In addition, the exhibition offers a retrospective look at the project Lost Territories. This ever-growing archive has been compiled by Sputnik Photos over nearly twenty years. FOTODOK and Sputnik Photos also invited Ukrainian artist Maria Matiashova to add her project EMPIRE EXPIRE to the exhibition. The Russian Empire, later the Soviet Union, and now the Russian Federation, has long employed imperial and colonial strategies of violence, exploitation, and extraction. The exhibition highlights several stories that reveal this continuity, showing how it spans from the past into the present. For instance, in Yangiobod, Michał Łuczak explores the transformation of a mining town in Uzbekistan that was once one of the Soviet Union's main sites for uranium extraction. Uranium is essential for producing nuclear weapons, which Russia inherited as the sole country from the union following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, Russia's military aggression has been backed by nuclear weaponry. Agnieszka Rayss, for her part, in Postcards from the War combines imagery from Soviet postcards with contemporary war photography from Ukraine. She demonstrates how propaganda shaped a 'happy' image of society, when in reality that society was far from peaceful.
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