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Die Berliner Künstlerin Julie Legouez veröffentlicht im März 2024 ihre erste Publikation, die sich dem sensiblen Thema häusliche Gewalt und der Bewältigung von Traumata widmet. Das Buch mit dem Titel "The Cure" gliedert sich in zehn Kapitel, in denen Legouez ihre persönliche Verarbeitung als Betroffene von häuslicher Gewalt aufzeigt. Legouez präsentiert akribisch gesammelte Details in einer "Akte", die als Grundlage für die grafische Ausgestaltung und den Aufbau des Buches dienen.Häusliche Gewalt bleibt ein gesellschaftliches Problem von hoher Relevanz, und "The Cure" bietet einen persönlichen Einblick in diese Thematik. Julie Legouez sieht in ihrer Publikation einen Beitrag zur Debatte über häusliche Gewalt und Trauma-Bewältigung.

The third issue of Solomiya is as desperate as it is full of love, beauty, courage, and an unsettling longing for "a journey, an escape, and freedom," as Yevhen, a young soldier from Odesa, puts it in War Dreams, a poignant series of portraits by Italian photographers Caimi&Piccini. While raising thought-provoking questions about masculinity in war through the recent work of Vsevolod Kazarin, Alex Mashtaler's yet unpublished photographs juxtapose the innocence of youth with the unforgiving harshness of reality - a reality shaped by Ukraine's colonial past and a present challenged by ongoing militarization. In interviews with the Solomiya Editors Andrii Ushytskyi, Ivanna Kozachenko and Sebastian Wells, Asia Bazdyrieva, Maxim Dondyuk, and Henrike Naumann further explore these complexities through their own perspectives and artistic practices. While Ivanna Kozachenko and the artist collective Commercial Public Art dissect the spatial strategies of the architecture built by Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the writings of Lucy Zoria and Sebastian Wells offer diverse insights into the lived experiences of young Ukrainians abroad.

»Fluent in the Languages of my Selves« is the first in the blue notes series. blue notes publishes intersectional voices and invites us to explore marginalized experiences and perspectives in short literary and visual formats. Like the blue notes, they create resistant dissonances.

The publication re:imagine your city invites you to explore and rethink current paradigms that shape our urban environments. It offers insightful perspectives on commemoration and heritage, city planning and gentrification, migration and post-pandemic changes, solidarity and critical spatial practices. The publication is the result of a collective effort by an engaged transdisciplinary network of urban practitioners, educators, researchers, artists, designers and architects in the framework of the international design lab for urban practices and transformation re:imagine your city.

Since October 2022, the editors Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi, Vsevolod Kazarin and Sebastian Wells as well as the art direction around Anne-Lene Proff and Peter Bünnagel from Kollektiv Scrollan and the Berlin-based publishing house SHIFT BOOKS have been working on a second issue of the magazine. In addition to photography, film, contemporary art, literature and, most importantly, the everyday life of young people in Ukraine, the magazine attempts to convey the complex reality of life under the permanent gaze of Russian aggression through the works of talented and already well-known Ukrainian artists.On 132 pages, the new issue pays special attention to the stories of people from the now-occupied territories of Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea, who have already been confronted with the war since 2014. The cover of the new issue was designed exclusively for Söomiya by renowned artist Alevtina Kakhidze. It shows a woman surrounded by missiles and drones, raising her hand. "Our hands became more skilful during the war," says Kakhidze, who has already created hundreds of drawings during the war and drew a tardigrade on the back cover of the magazine - the only creature to survive the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Beim Betrachten der Bilder von Katerina Belkina, ist nicht ganz klar, welches Medium man gerade vor sich hat - eine Fotografie oder ein Gemälde? In ihren Werken vereint die russische Künstlerin auf einzigartige Art und Weise Techniken der Fotografie mit Darstellungsformen der bildenden Kunst. Mit einem digitalen Pinsel verleiht sie ihren fotografischen Arbeiten eine schwerelose, traumhafte Atmosphäre und erhebt die Wirklichkeit der Momentaufnahme zu einer erweiterten und verbesserten Realität. Damit kreiert sie ihr ganz eigenes Genre. Der dreisprachig angelegte Bildband "Katerina Belkina. My Work Is My Personal Theatre" (Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch) präsentiert nun erstmals das Werk der Künstlerin im kunsthistorischen Diskurs.