The Chronicle / Хроніка, 2016
Drawing, 18 x (15 x 20 cm)/(20 x 15 cm) .
©image: Nikita Kadan
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007960).
The Chronicle is a series of drawings by Nikita Kadan. The material used while working on the series included photographs of victims of the Lviv pogrom of the Jewish community, Polish and Ukrainian victims of the Volhynia massacre, victims of NKVD, and civilians and prisoners of war murdered under Nazi occupation. The series is a reference to a multiannual phenomenon of photographic manipulation: photographs are distributed with captions altering the order of executioners and their victims. The history of manipulation is nothing but continuity in the history of crime, on a variety of levels and differently motivated. Later, manipulation is detected and all sides proceed with revealing mutual truths. The struggle for memory morphs into competition to generate an ideologised imitation of memory. The Chronicle reflects contemporary “memory wars”. The artist offers a suggestion that history should always be viewed directly – without exception – and never through the protective looking-glass of an ideologically founded mythology.
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Artist
> Nikita Kadan / Нікіта Кадан.
Nikita Kadan is a Ukrainian visual artist who is confronted with how he as an artist must form his own socio
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Nikita Kadan – The Possessed Can Witness in the Court. M HKA, Antwerp, 20 January 2018 - 29 April 2018.
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine. M HKA, Antwerp, 06 May 2022 - 28 August 2022.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. Stad Geel, Geel, 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness. European Parliament, Brussels, 05 May 2022 - 21 August 2022.
> Exhibition: Museum in Motion. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Nikita Kadan. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: GEWELD | VIOLENCE.
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2017 [Acquisitions 2017].
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> Ensemble: In Solidarity with Ukraine.
> Ensemble: Уяви Україну – Мистецтво як критичне ставлення / Imagine Ukraine – Art as a Critical Attitude.
> Ensemble: Уяви Україну – Маленькі та великі історії / Imagine Ukraine – Small and Big Stories.
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> Ensemble: IMAGINE UKRAINE - Exhibitions.