ARTIST PROFILE

Andrii Dostliev

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

  • 2015

  • My uncle got an amateur camera as a birthday present when he was a teenager and we had several boxes of his photos including a single picture of our old house in a small town in Luhansk region - also under Russian occupation now.
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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.