BITTER HARVEST

BITTER HARVEST

Bitter Harvest reflects on Ukraine’s history as the “breadbasket” of Europe and on the legacies of forced grain extraction causing the Holodomor in the 1930s, as well as Russia’s continued theft of Ukrainian grain since 2014. Following a 2023 research trip to study wheat harvesting practices in Oregon, Slinko designed a drawing system that mimics the logic of sowing and harvesting as mark-making.

Executed in a single continuous pass across the surface, these 20 and 28 feet drawings emerge through interdependencies between the system, physical constraints, human error and intent rather than expressive gesture.

from where the grain itself can speak, curated by Carolyn Jervis and Theo Donovan, Mitchel Art Gallery, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
Lars Haukaness, William Kurelek, Morgan Possberg, Åsa Sonjasdotter, and Slinko

DOCUMENTATION (editing by Céline Berger)

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