On August 8, at 5:00 p.m., the Lviv Municipal Art Center will open the exhibition “Artifacts of Invincibility in Resin: Exhibition of the War Fragments Museum in Lviv.”
After presentation exhibitions of artifacts of recent history in London, Tbilisi and Odesa, the Museum of War Fragments is going to Lviv for a month.
The Museum of Artifacts of War is 300 stories and objects, silent witnesses of what cannot be kept silent. Artifacts collected during a full-scale Russian invasion and frozen in transparent cubes. In particular, in the cubes you will see items that the warriors of Azov carried through the capture after the defense of Azovstal and a salt crystal from Soledar.
Now the museum exists in the format of an online platform, on which all 300 artifacts will be presented. This will provide an immersive and interactive experience navigating the virtual galleries, viewing high-resolution images of the artefacts and accessing the detailed stories behind each of the 300 artworks. Anyone who purchases a cube will not only make a donation and receive an art object, but also access to the emotions and experiences associated with the fragments. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the cubes will go to the rehabilitation of children, soldiers and help to their families. Sale is possible only on the website of the museum: https://thewarfragments.com/.
The idea behind the project is based on the concept of postmemory, pioneered by Marianna Hirsch, an American-Romanian literary critic and cultural theorist known for her research into visual and literary representations of memory, trauma, and identity in the context of the Holocaust.
“The exhibition is a great reminder that even the smallest traumas of war should not be buried in a long box of oblivion. They must be remembered and worked out in order to live fully and continue to live. In the case of the Museum of War Fragments, such processing also becomes an art object that informs the world about Russia’s attack on Ukraine,” adds the Municipal Art Center.
The exhibition can be visited until September 8 every day, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Lviv Municipal Art Center at the address of st. Stefanyka 11. The code on the gate is 27.