Odesa artist Denis Nedoluzhenko, who is currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, participated in the exhibition 'FRONTMEN: Art of Resistance' running 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 titled 'Motorola 1917' exemplifies the deconstruction of Soviet and contemporary Russian imperial myths.

“Before my mobilization, I was painting and working with ceramics, which was my livelihood, but the service gave a new spark to my creativity. During my service, I stumbled upon old Soviet propaganda literature in the pre-conscription training office. That’s when the idea was born: I imagined myself as a student of that time forced to learn about 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 reflection of our current struggle,” the artist recounted.

Born in 1987 in the village of Chyzheve in the Odesa region, he graduated from Odesa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov with a degree in microbiology and general virology. A participant in art exhibitions since 2018, he lives and works in Odesa, focusing on painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics. His main styles include expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materialism.

Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs titled 'Lines of Fracture' by the award-winning French photographer Matthieu Chazal has opened in Odesa. 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.