Duration: 7 March – 24 May, 2025
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

Participating artists:
Yehor Antsyhin • Lia Dostlieva & Andrii Dostliev
Diana Fedoriaka • Vira Hanzha • Lucy Ivanova
Pavlo Kerestey • Alina Kleytman • Anastasiia Leliuk
Kateryna Lysovenko • Oleh Perkowsky
Stanislava Pinchuk • Vova Vorotniov

Curated by:Nastia Khlestova & Maksym Khodak

The industrialised economy is largely based on the extraction of valuable minerals, ores and fossil fuels. These resources have always been closely linked to the country in which they are found and advancing capitalism carts them around the globe. Right up to the present day, people and their ideas become the main driving forces of the economy and, in a sense, a natural resource.

The exhibition explores the lives and experiences of Ukrainians, which have been changed by war-induced migration and reveals a paradox in connection with movement. While the artists speak of a change of location, it is at the same time about being frozen in one’s own displacement.

In the end, there is only movement in which we are too slow for the world around us. Snails being crushed under the rubble.

© Max Wegscheidler