«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska’s performative sculpture
Journal: Aisthesis Pratiche linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2024

The paper addresses the work of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, who resorts to military equipment as artistic materials and to destruction as an artistic method. In the first section, I contextualize Kulikovska’s performative sculpture within art history, claiming that it can be regarded as Destruction Art. In the second section, I turn to Catherine Malabou’s concept of “destructive plasticity” as a philosophical tool of an aesthetics of war, which offers a sound theoretical framework to furt