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19 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Листопад 2022 IMPACT DAMAGE session of the UN General Assembly. During her visit, the First Lady, accom - panied by Ukrainian Museum director Peter Doroshenko, toured and officially opened the museum’s newest exhibition, Impact Damage . The exhibition dramati - cally re-creates the atmosphere inside a “boarded-up muse - um somewhere in Ukraine,” its galleries filled with cultural artifacts but now dark, silent, the only light coming from three large video projections that document the tragedy of the war as it unfolds outside the museum’s walls ( see accompanying story ). Mrs. Zelenska also took the opportunity to launch a stamp honoring Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda on the 300th anniversa - ry of his birth. The Skovoroda Museum in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, destroyed in May of this year by a russian artillery strike, is the first museum scheduled for resto - ration thanks to Mrs. Zelenska’s campaign to save Ukrainian culture. With the exception of a few large museums in Kyiv, Lviv, and Odesa, all of Ukraine’s museums are closed. The russian invasion has put cultural activities on hold. Mirroring a dystopian science fiction film, museums across Ukraine are in cultural hibernation: staff work from home, artworks have been wrapped and stored, windows are boarded up. Once active and vibrant galleries sit in dark silence, frozen in time. The Ukrainian Museum’s new exhibition, Impact Damage , meaning visible physical damage or destruction, recreates a shuttered museum somewhere in Ukraine. “The galleries are filled with the museum’s collection, from paintings and sculptures to embroidered garments and historic ceramic objects,” says Museum director Peter Doroshenko, who conceived and organized the exhibition, “yet there are no lights to fully navigate the exhibition; the galleries are dark and dismal.” The only light comes from three large video projections by the Kyiv-based film collective Babylon’13. The collective consists of 100 activist filmmakers, photography directors, sound engineers, producers, and editors who have been working together since November 2013 and are now creating short, narrative films about the current war. Their stories reflect the drama and tragedy across the country and the charged moments outside the walls of a museum in any city. Doroshenko adds: “This exhibition is intended to parallel and create emotional connections to what cultural institutions in Ukraine are experiencing on a daily basis.” Impact Damage is on view through January 8, 2023. Photos: G. Chandler Cearley
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