A video and art project by artist Ayla Dmyterko
Solastalgic Inheritance is an installation by Glasgow-based artist Ayla Dmyterko consisting of moving image, ceramics, text, textile and painting.
Inheritance is a painting newly reconfigured in November 2022 in response to the electricity shortage in Kyiv asa rsult of the war. Formerly summery yellow, the canvas is now a brilliant shade of silvery blue.
Solastalgic Soliloquy is a short film made in various locations including Glasgow, the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Regina, Canada, and an old-growth forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. Through these specific sites of memory and imagination, the film reflects on the making and unmaking of culture that is part of past and ongoing colonial projects and the fragile hopes for the future during a climate emergency created by extractive capitalism. The film is a ritual of healing that draws on Ukrainian folk customs but the burning wax in Solastalgic Soliloquy cautions us to be wary of rites that might be based on memory that is faulty and nostalgia that might drift into the platitudes of nationalism.
Ayla Dmyterko is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist who lives in Glasgow. She has a Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and her practice engages with art as a disruptive mode of inquiry into settled habits of thought.
The films accompany EUNIC for Ukraine, a European film week in support of the Ukraine that is organized by the European Union National Institutes for Culture in Glasgow and Edinburgh. This project was made possible with the grant from the Culture of Solidarity-EUNIC Ukraine Fund, in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation and EUNIC with core financing led by the Goethe-Institut.
Join us for the preview on Wednesday, Nov 16 from 5 to 6pm. The film can be viewed during the exhibition which runs until Nov 23:
NOV 17: 9:30am to 1pm
NOV 18: 9:30am to 3pm
NOV 19: 9:30am to 1:30pm
NOV 21: 9:30am to 6pm
NOV 22: 9:30am to 6pm
NOV 23: 9:30am to 6pm
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