Nikita Kadan, ‘Stone Strikes Stone’

This book has been published to mark Nikita Kadan’s solo exhibition ‘Stone Strikes Stone’ as part of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform.

At the heart of artist Nikita Kadan’s practice lies the historical past in the form of ideologies, art and acts of political violence. He delves into the works of the (Ukrainian) avant-garde and engages with the history of the past century in Ukraine. With a keen sense of relevance, Kadan speaks of history as the present day. However, the exhibition goes beyond historical facts, examining the political violence embedded in binary worldviews. It makes the very question of memory the subject of artistic expression, exposing and contrasting the political wounds inflicted upon it.