“I am collecting what is broken and returning home”, a 21-year-old artist from Kharkov creates mosaics from fragments collected after shelling of the city. Photos

Valentina GUK is a 21-year-old artist from Kharkov, working under the pseudonym Sun. She studied at the local, but did not graduate him.

After a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, the GUK remained in her hometown. During one of the shelling of Kharkov, a balcony in the artist’s apartment was knocked out by an explosive wave. The next day, Valentina returned home, saw fragments of glass scattered everywhere-and came up with an art object: from these fragments she collected a mosaic. Over time, the artist decided to turn a single experience into a permanent project dedicated to Kharkov and his inhabitants. After shelling of the city, she comes to a place destroyed or damaged by Russian blows, collects glass fragments and makes mosaics from them. HUK places his works directly on the facades of the affected buildings or next to them. There are already six such works on the streets of Kharkov. Another appeared in the city of Izum. This is how the creative process of Valentina works. The waterman of labor is a former apartment building built by order of the Russia insurance company in 1916. The complex, designed by the St. Petersburg architect Hippolytus Preterro, occupies a whole quarter and is divided into three-room yards. After the Russian strike in the center of Kharkov, on March 2, 2022, the building was seriously injured. (Tagstotranslate) News

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