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The Womanly Face Of War

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The Womanly Face of War

August 4, 2022 | 0 Comments
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The Desmond and Leah Tutu Lega­cy Foun­da­tion and Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa are bring­ing a spe­cial­ly curat­ed exhi­bi­tion, “The Wom­an­ly Face of War”, to cities across South Africa, as part of a land­mark col­lab­o­ra­tion by South African artists and civ­il soci­ety to improve pub­lic under­stand­ing of the impact of the war in Ukraine, par­tic­u­lar­ly on women and chil­dren.
Spe­cial­ly-curat­ed by lead­ing mem­bers of Ukrain­ian women-led artist col­lec­tive ‘Sun­seed Art’, and timed to coin­cide with Women’s Month across in South Africa, “The Wom­an­ly Face of War” is based on four female artists’ per­son­al per­spec­tives of how the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine has impact­ed on women and girls, includ­ing the hor­rors of sex­u­al and gen­der-based vio­lence and how moth­ers have been forced into per­ilous roles as fight­ers and life-savers.  The exhi­bi­tion will be free to enter at:
· The Trevor Hud­dle­ston CR Memo­r­i­al Cen­tre in Sophi­a­town, Johan­nes­burg (12–16 August, 09.00–17.00 dai­ly)
· The Desmond and Leah Tutu Lega­cy Foun­da­tion at the Old Gra­nary Build­ing in Cape Town (19 August — 01 Sep­tem­ber, 09.30–15.30 dai­ly)
· Dur­ban in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber (exact date and loca­tion TBC).

Rage grew into art.

Sun­seed ART is a plat­form for Ukrain­ian artists who have been cre­at­ing posters since the first day of russ­ian full-scale inva­sion. In this way, they share their feel­ings, sup­port Ukraini­ans, and urge the world not to stand aside. We believe that art is also a seed that sprouts up today and will flour­ish after our vic­to­ry. We want Ukrain­ian art to spread in the free world, to inspire and bring us all clos­er to the com­mon vic­to­ry of light over dark­ness.

Sunseed ART mission:

We have cre­at­ed our project to sprout the seed of our art, because Ukraine is the land of cul­ture and art. Through the cen­tu­ry of occu­pa­tion Ukraine by rus­sia (first Russ­ian Empire and then the Sovi­et Union) whilst they destroyed our intel­lec­tu­als and annex­ing our science’s we have with art pre­served our cul­ture, our cre­ativ­i­ty and our courage.

On our plat­form we tell the sto­ries of Ukrain­ian artists, who work­ing in the most diverse gen­res of posters. For Ukraini­ans cre­ativ­i­ty has become a lan­guage to explain events hap­pen­ing to us that is under­stand­able to the whole world. Some of the artists have more rude and loud lan­guage, some of them are del­i­cate and more nar­ra­tive. Our col­lec­tion is alive and con­stant­ly grows. We want to con­vey to you the expe­ri­ence and his­to­ry of our artists, who most­ly stayed in Ukraine and work here. We are always look­ing for new artists, because we want to help  tal­ent­ed artists to spread their mes­sage through art. We are plan­ning to expand the prod­uct line on the site.