Specters of Peace
- For:
- General public
- Time:
17.00
- Place:
- Auditorium
- Price:
Free activity. Prior booking request.
Booking opens on 23 February (online and on tel. +34 917 911 370 from 10.00 to 20.00).
In this conversation, artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk dialogue with Ukrainian curator and cultural critic Borys Filonenko, discussing the creative processes and ideas behind Pedagogies of War, a project centred on the conflict in Ukraine and the debates it has generated locally.
Drawing on their direct experience of the war, the artists offer audiences a grounded perspective, revealing how their understanding of concepts such as pacifism and militarism has evolved. Using their film work as a starting point, the session examines the challenges of representing military and political violence in a context saturated with images and information, as well as the ways in which art can question the narratives that risk trivialising war.
Borys Filonenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine) is an art critic, curator, teacher, and editor-in-chief of ist publishing. He co-curated Ukraine’s national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). He holds an MA in philosophy from Karazin Kharkiv National University. He is the author of several books including Louvre. Volodymyr Kostyrko. Yevhen Ravskyi and The Culture Under Pressure. Selected Texts. He also co-authored the graphic novel Near Mint with artists Danylo Shtangeyev and Anton Reznik, as well as the comic strip Recounting Kharkiv, with Danylo Shtangeyev. Lives and works in Lviv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv.
