Odesa artist Denys Nedoluzhenko, currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, participated in the exhibition "Frontline Artists: The Art of Resistance", which runs from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.

This exhibition is part of the "Book Country" festival and brings together artists whose works reflect their personal experiences of war and resistance.

Denys Nedoluzhenko's series titled "Motorola 1917" serves as an example of artistic deconstruction of Soviet and contemporary Russian imperial myths.

"Before my mobilization, I worked with painting and ceramics, which was my livelihood. However, my service has provided a new impetus for my creativity. During my service, I stumbled upon old Soviet propaganda literature from textbooks in the draft preparation office. That’s when the idea was born: I imagined myself as a student of that time, forced to learn about the 'heroes' of the empire, and as a small act of resistance, I began to paint over these portraits, deconstructing the myth. Each piece in this series has become a form of protest and a documentation of our time of struggle," the artist shared.

The artist was born in 1987 in the village of Chyzheve, in the Berezivka district of Odesa region. He graduated from Odesa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov with a degree in microbiology and general virology. He has been participating in art exhibitions since 2018 and currently lives and works in Odesa. His artistic practices include painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics, focusing on expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materiality.

Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs titled "Lines of Fracture" by the award-winning French photographer Matthieu Shazal has opened in Odesa. Matthieu Shazal spent nearly two decades traveling around the Black and Mediterranean Seas, documenting war from the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Greece to Armenia, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.