Odesa artist Denis Nedoluzhenko, currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, participated in the exhibition "FRONTMEN: Art of Resistance", which runs from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.

The exhibition is part of the "Book Country" festival and brings together artists whose work reflects their experiences of war and resistance.

Denis Nedoluzhenko's series "Motorola 1917" serves as an example of artistic deconstruction of Soviet and contemporary Russian imperial myths.

"Before mobilization, I was engaged in painting and ceramics, which were my source of income, but service gave a new impetus to my creativity. During my service, I accidentally stumbled upon Soviet propaganda literature from old textbooks in the pre-conscription training room. That’s when the idea was born: I imagined myself as a student of that era, 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, a series emerged where each work became a form of protest and a record of our time of struggle," the artist shared.

The artist was born in 1987 in the village of Chyzhove, Beryozivka district, 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, creating in the genres of painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics, focusing on expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materiality.

Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs titled "Lines of Fracture" by French photographer and award-winning artist Matthieu Chazal opened in Odesa. Matthieu Chazal spent nearly two decades traveling around the Black and Mediterranean Seas, documenting war across the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Greece to Armenia, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.