As part of the ARCOmadrid 2023 programme, today at 1pm Casa América and the Embassy of Ecuador present the project Unbroken. Portraits of Ukrainian dancers superimposed on Russian bullets make up this project.
One of the works, Nika 1, made from more than 9,000 bullet shells -the same amount of artillery ammunition that Russia uses in just 4 hours in the war being waged in Ukraine- will be exhibited until 20 July in the Gabriel García-Márquez Garden.
Survival in spite of suffering is the axis of this photographic project that dialogues about how the soul unfolds through art, in spite of the pain of war. Unbroken is a project by Felipe Jácome, Ecuadorian photographer and co-author of the work with Svetlana Onipko, Ukrainian photographer and dancer with the National Ballet of Ukraine.
The title of the work, Unbroken, was born in Warsaw, while Svetlana was explaining the project to the dancers who would be models for the photos. The project captures the images of some dancers of the Ukrainian National Ballet on bullet casings who, as exiles from the war in Ukraine, were forced to leave their loves, families, partners, dreams.
The exhibition will be inaugurated by Enrique Ojeda, Director General of Casa de América; Andrés Vallejo, Ambassador of Ecuador, and Felipe Jácome, photographer.
