
Artwork by: Halyna Andrusenko
Garden of Gethsemane
Gethsemane is a garden where, according to the Bible legend, Jesus underwent the agony and was arrested before his crucifixion. "The Garden of Gethsemane" is also a novel with autobiographical elements by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Bagryany, which was written in 1948–1950. The idea of the exhibition is derived from the legend and the novel.
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The "The Garden of Gethsemane" novel is a hymn to human dignity on the verge of life and death, and at the same time an angry sentence to the totalitarian Stalinist regime, which destroyed millions of people without investigation and trial, and most importantly, without the guilt of the accused. The idea of the work, the worldview concept of the author is revealed through dialogues between the executioners and the victim.​ Investigators advocate an artificial, unnatural world in which "man is a scumbag" and where "there are enough people", no matter how much you kill. And the hero endures all kinds of torture and does not break, because behind him is a humanistic world, where only the human soul is eternal, and the political regime is transient.
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The exhibition presents installations, video-audio performance, photography, paintings, graphics, poetry.
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Artists: Halyna Andrusenko, Olena Shtepura, Maryna Haydamaka, Yana Gryniv, Daryna Gladun, Ihor Spassky, Svitlana Zhytnia, Joëlle Kehrli
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Curated by: Yana Gryniv, founder of Art Contact Ukraine
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Time: 27.11-30.11.2022
Location: TAITH Contemporary Galerie (Austria, 1030, Vienna, Ungargasse 57)​













