The exhi­bi­tion is free to enter from 27 Novem­ber to 15 Decem­ber

at the Cape Town Holo­caust & Geno­cide Cen­tre

Address: 88 Hat­field St, Cape Town City Cen­tre, Cape Town, 8001

Mon­day-Sat­ur­day 10:00 am — 05:00 pm (on Fri­day until 02:00 pm)

 

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In Novem­ber 2023, Ukraine reflects on the 90th anniver­sary of Holodomor, a trag­ic chap­ter that pro­found­ly impact­ed the lives of mil­lions of Ukraini­ans. At our recent com­mem­o­ra­tive event, we assem­bled to pay trib­ute to those affect­ed and bear wit­ness to the vic­tims of the man-made famine metic­u­lous­ly orches­trat­ed by the Sovi­et Regime. Our col­lec­tive aim was to height­en aware­ness about the sig­nif­i­cance of acknowl­edg­ing and learn­ing from this dark chap­ter in his­to­ry. In doing so, we hon­or not just the num­bers and sta­tis­tics but the human sto­ries, the extin­guished fam­i­ly trees, and the mil­lions of lives for­ev­er frac­tured.

This year, with sup­port from the Embassy of Ukraine to South Africa and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Nation­al Muse­um of the Holodomor-Geno­cide in Kyiv, UAZA suc­cess­ful­ly opened the Holodomor exhi­bi­tion at the Cape Town Holo­caust and Geno­cide Cen­tre locat­ed at 88 Hat­field St. 

In a series of posters, Ukrain­ian artist Yuliya Fedorovych tells the sto­ry of the Holodomor in her own way – she defines the key pre­req­ui­sites, facts and con­se­quences of the tragedy of the 1930s, putting them togeth­er in a new visu­al lan­guage. The lat­ter reflects the syn­the­sis that Ukrain­ian cul­ture under­went in the 20th cen­tu­ry – tra­di­tion­al ele­ments of folk embroi­dery, allu­sions to which appear on posters, are woven into the gen­er­al style of con­struc­tivism of the 1920s and 1930s.

Each of the posters is also avail­able in aug­ment­ed real­i­ty, in which every fact of the past appears live, so take your cell phone with you when vis­it­ing the exhi­bi­tion– scan the code on the paint­ing for an inter­ac­tive art expe­ri­ence that tells a pow­er­ful sto­ry.

 

 

The exhibition is open for visitors until December 15th , so seize the opportunity to visit in Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre located at 88 Hatfield Street !

 

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More infor­ma­tion on the Exhi­bi­tion “HØLØDØMØR”  

Art project of Yulia Fedorovych 

His­to­ry always depends on the speak­er, the same objec­tive­ly accom­plished facts of the past can be put into dif­fer­ent nar­ra­tives, some­times with com­plete­ly oppo­site morals. That is why, when study­ing his­to­ry, it is worth pay­ing atten­tion to the fig­ure of its author every time.

The sto­ry of the Holodomor is also not a lin­ear sto­ry. Every Ukrain­ian fam­i­ly has a per­son­al his­to­ry, it is the mem­o­ry of ances­tors, events and cir­cum­stances that hap­pened to them. They can be com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent from each oth­er, they can be sim­i­lar, but in the end they are all unit­ed in a con­tin­u­ous nar­ra­tive of the his­to­ry of the geno­cide of the Ukrain­ian peo­ple in 1932–1933 .

Yulia Fedorovy­ch’s project demon­strates the par­i­ty of the great and per­son­al his­to­ry of the Holodomor. Mys­tk­i­na out­lines the course of events of this tragedy in the first part — a series of posters called “ГØЛØДØМØР” (“HØLØDØMØR”) and tells the per­son­al sto­ry of an eye­wit­ness to the Holodomor in the ani­mat­ed film “My name is Yev­ge­nia Sake­vich-Dal­las” .

In a series of posters, Fedorovych tells the sto­ry of the Holodomor in his own way — he defines the key pre­req­ui­sites, facts and con­se­quences of the tragedy of the 1930s, putting them togeth­er in a new visu­al lan­guage. The lat­ter reflects the syn­the­sis that Ukrain­ian cul­ture under­went in the 20th cen­tu­ry — tra­di­tion­al ele­ments of folk embroi­dery, allu­sions to which appear on posters, are woven into the gen­er­al style of con­struc­tivism of the 1920s and 1930s. Each of the posters is also avail­able in aug­ment­ed real­i­ty, in which every fact of the past appears live.

Yuliya Fedorovy­ch’s street exhi­bi­tion of posters “HØLØDØMØR” was exhib­it­ed from August 15 to Sep­tem­ber 15 at Slavy Square.

The ani­mat­ed film “My name is Yev­ge­nia Sake­vich-Dal­las” is ded­i­cat­ed to the sto­ry of a pub­lic fig­ure, artist, Ukrain­ian-lan­guage writer and mod­el, who suf­fered all the most trau­mat­ic episodes of the 20th cen­tu­ry — the Holodomor, depor­ta­tion, war, cap­tiv­i­ty and, ulti­mate­ly, emi­gra­tion. How­ev­er, this is rather a sto­ry about luck, indomitabil­i­ty and strength of spir­it, which Evge­nia has pre­served despite what she has expe­ri­enced.

The film “My name is Yev­ge­nia Sake­vich-Dal­las” can be viewed in the Hall of Remem­brance dur­ing the open­ing hours of the Holodomor Muse­um.

About the author:

Yuliya Fedorovych is a visu­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion design­er, an artist. In 2021, she received her Mas­ter of Arts degree (MFA) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame in the USA. Schol­ar of the Ful­bright and Edmund S. Muskie pro­grams. The focus of her work is the visu­al­iza­tion of the com­plex his­to­ry and her­itage of Ukraine and East­ern Europe. Award-win­ning works are exhib­it­ed in gal­leries in the USA, Cana­da and Ukraine.

The project was imple­ment­ed joint­ly with the Nation­al Muse­um of the Rev­o­lu­tion of Dig­ni­ty

 

Source: Holodomor Muse­um of Ukraine

 

Yulia Fedorovych telling more about her project on her YouTube Chan­nel in video HØLØDØMØR: a project overview

 

Also, please take a look at the short doc­u­men­tary about the artist and her project: