Yevhen Korshunov
“Dust Cures”, 2025, object, series of drawings
Yevhen works in painting, drawing, video art and creates objects. The artist explores themes of memory, local history, myth-making and the absurd. Part of his method is interventions into reality—often ironic—that reveal the absurdities of everyday life.
Dust Cares is a project comprising a series of drawings and an object that recreates the interior of a firing shelter — a fortification designed to protect and accommodate soldiers. Yevhen lived in such an “interior” together with other soldiers during basic military training, which the artist calls a “poetic introduction” to war. This conventional space reveals the simple adaptations made by military inhabitants to make it more suitable for life, or rather for staying: to create the semblance of comfort under conditions far removed from basic everyday comforts.
The drawings capture portraits of comrades-in-arms and elements of military life: rest, conversation, a cigarette break; duty in the mess; the soldier Mykola showing how a drone severed half of his finger; the soldier Andrij who misses his family; the soldier Saszko who is a history teacher… In his drawings Yevhen tells their stories both through the produced images and through accompanying texts — he supplements the pictures with the personal stories of his subjects. People who were forced to become soldiers manifest human qualities that the artist captures within military routine.
