Poems of fallen Ukrainians on the walls of a former prison in the Czech Republic – a reminder of the war

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Poems of fallen Ukrainians/Kaznice

Kharkiv artist Dina Chmuzh wrote poems of Maksym Kryvtsov and Victoria Amelina, who died during the Russian-Ukrainian war, on the walls of the former Kaznice prison in the Czech city of Brno. /p>

In the Czech city of Brno, Kharkiv artist Dina Chmuzh implemented an art project based on the poetry of Ukrainian artists. This is reported by “Chitomo”.

Dina Chmuzh wrote poems “those who went to light prematurely” in Czech on the outer windows of the prison. The artist added notes to the texts that Kryvtsov and Amelina died because of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The artist created a diptych in the courtyard of Kaznice. In the part of the former prison where women were kept, Chmuzh wrote a poem by Amelina, and in the part where men were kept, poems by the poet and soldier Artur Dron.

Poems of dead Ukrainians/Kаznice

The idea behind the project:

The idea for this project arose from Dina Chmuzh after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Mystkina said that she started creating a series of works called “poetic marking of the city”, where she wrote poems by Ukrainian authors on the boarded-up windows of buildings in Kharkiv that were damaged during shelling.

Mystkina believes that writing poems by dead authors is a painful process, but at the same time necessary to preserve their voice.

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In Kharkiv, where a lot of buildings have been damaged due to constant Russian shelling, but communal services quickly cover them with OSB boards and thus the city looks like “in armor” in these plates. I mostly write modern poetry (although sometimes poems from a century ago, which sound surprisingly relevant), which resonate with the present as much as possible – fixate, remind, heal. It is most painful to write the works of already deceased authors – the poems of Viktoria Amelina, Maksym Kryvtsov, Volodymyr Vakulenko, because the only thing we can do for them is to remember, appreciate and continue the fight against evil, she said.

Project in Brno became possible thanks to cooperation with Czech cultural organizations, in particular the Divadlo 3+KK theater, the Publicist theater (Theatre Publicist) and the Brno city magistrate.