Olia Fedorova: You Are Now Leaving III  ^UA

2025 
Installation
Road signs

After Russia started the full-scale war against the artist’s home country Ukraine, thoudands of people including herself were forced to leave their homes. Driving away by car the last thing that they saw before leaving their home city, town or village – were the road signs «You are now leaving...». In Ukraine, like in many other European countries, they are white metal boards with black alignment that have a black location’s name crossed out by the bold red line. In Fedorova’s work these signs symbolise hundreds of cities, towns and villages that Ukrainians had to leave without any clue when they would be able to come back – and if they would be able to come back at all. At the same time, the signs with the red crossing line are about the very tragedy of «deletion» of these cities, towns and villages, their brutal destruction commited by the Russian troops every day for already more than 3 years.

This is the third iteration of an installation created specifically for Pohoda Festival. The first two iterations were presented at Changwon Sculpture Biennale (South Korea, 2022) and at Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt (Germany, 2025).

In Olia Fedorova’s work the road signs symbolise Ukrainian cities, towns and villages that thousands of people, including herself, had to leave when fleeing from the Russian war of aggression. At the same time, the signs with the red crossing line are about the very tragedy of «deletion» of these places, their brutal destruction commited by the Russian troops every day for already more than 3 years.

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