ARTIST PROFILE

Andrii Dostliev

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

  • 2015

  • This photo is my mother’s - taken during her student years in Kharkiv. She’s standing with her friends near Lenin’s monument in the central square. The same monument that was finally demolished last year by Maidan activists.
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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.