Odesa artist Denis Nedoluzhenko, currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, has participated in the exhibition "FRONTMEN: Art of Resistance", which is taking place from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.

The exhibition is part of the "Book Country" festival and brings together artists whose work reflects their personal experiences of war and resistance.

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

"Before my mobilization, I was engaged in painting and ceramics, which were my livelihood, but my service provided a new impetus for my creativity. During my service, I accidentally stumbled upon Soviet propaganda literature in old textbooks in the pre-conscription training room. That’s when the idea was born: I imagined myself as a student of that time, forced to study the "heroes" of the empire, and as a small act of resistance, I began to paint over these portraits, deconstructing the myth. Thus, each piece became a form of protest and a record of our time of struggle," the artist shared.

The artist was born in 1987 in the village of Chyzheve, Berezivka District, Odesa Region. He graduated from Odesa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov with a degree in "Microbiology and General Virology". He has participated in art exhibitions since 2018. He lives and works in Odesa. His works encompass painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics, focusing on expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materiality.

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