Creating Resistance by Engaging Destruction: Three Contemporary Feminist Artists from Ukraine
Journal: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma accompanying these events. Feminist artists are addressing this context in innovative ways, resisting growing nationalism, militarism, and the polarization of various segments of Ukrainian society. In the