ARTIST PROFILE

Andrii Dostliev

  • Ukraine (b. 1984)
  • Currently in Poland.

  • 2015

  • This woman in the photo from the flea market in Riga looks remarkably like my grandmother in her 30s. She had a similar photo - same pose, same three-quarter view, similar clothes. She must have liked it - she even had an enlarged hand coloured copy made.
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    Occupation (2015) | 2015

My family photo archive remains in Donetsk, Ukrainian city occupied by Russian terrorists. I might never see it again. It might not exist anymore when I’m writing this text or when you will be reading it. All I can do to preserve it in my memory is to reconstruct at least those photos which I still remember. Reconstruct using any available materials and photos of other people no longer needed by their original owners. Occupy somebody else’s memorabilia exactly the same way my own were occupied.