Daniil Revkovskyi, Andrii Rachynskyi “Civilians. Invasion” / film screening / 100 years in Labirynt

When: 13.10.2024 (Sunday), 15.00
Where: Galeria Labirynt, ul. ks. J. Popiełuszki 5, Lublin
Language: film with subtitles in Polish, Ukrainian, English.
Free admission

“In our film ‘Civilians. Invasion” (2023) we used a familiar method of searching for material using social media search algorithms. We collected archival open-source footage recorded by civilians during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Searching for material by city and town names and keywords such as ‘shelling,’ ‘burial,’ etc., we looked at several thousand recordings. As the full-scale invasion began, the content on the usual private accounts changed: staying in basements, evacuating from occupied areas, trying to survive. On some of these channels, the last recordings were posted in March-April 2023 and were no longer updated. The fate of the authors of these channels remains unknown.

In 2024, our film “Civilians. Invasion” represented Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale.

This project contains sensitive content that some people may find disturbing.”
[text from artists’ website]

Daniil Revkovskyi, Andrii Rachynskyi are Kharkiv-based artists who combine various forms of artistic practices (installations, reconstructions, video, archives), exploring the contexts and landscapes of Ukraine’s industrial regions. They graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art with a degree in graphic design. In 2012, they created a public page “Pamjat” (Memory) on the social network Vkontakte to explore collective memory in the post-Soviet territory. This project became the starting point for their collaboration. Nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022, the winners of the 2020 PinchukArtCentre Prize Audience Award for the project “Hooligans.” Allegro Prize 2022 winners. In 2024, Andrii Rachinskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi represent Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Event within the framework of the project „Galeria Labirynt – from a gallery of paintings to a gallery for people”.
Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the program National Cultural Center: Culture-Interventions. Edition 2024

Funded by the European Union as part of the National Reconstruction Plan.