A new photography exhibition titled 'Pairs Skating' features artists Wolfgang Tillmans and Boris Mikhailov, aiming to showcase the fragility and resilience amid wartime in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Curated by Maria Isserlis and Tatiana Kochubinska, the exhibition highlights themes of vulnerability and restriction stemming from political conflict. Amid escalating attacks by Russia, the venue serves as a bunker for public safety. Both artists bring significant works that resonate with the context, focusing on war, borders, and their shared human experiences, creating an impactful dialogue within the ongoing strife.
Through their lens, both artists capture the fragility, resilience and humour inherent in the human condition, the vulnerability of the body, and the notion of restriction-whether political, social, or personal.
The good thing is that [the venue] is a certified bunker so the public are allowed in.
We're in Ukraine and the war is unfortunately still ongoing... so we decided to talk about [the war] through Crimea, water and borders.
We decided that The State We're In would be a very powerful statement from Wolfgang.
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