The exhibition Odesa, Texas: Up Close has opened in Lutsk. It is the second edition of a project dedicated to places that remain with us. This time, however, the curators invite us to look at them more closely. The exhibition explores how memories change over time and why they cannot always be preserved as clear and complete images.
The new edition brings together works by Vasya Dmytryk, Olha Henda, Kseniia Bilyk, Victoria Pidust, Anna Ivchenko, and Yaroslav Solop. Solop was also invited to join the project as co-curator, bringing a fresh perspective to the concept developed for the first exhibition and working alongside Kristina Borhes.
Here, Odesa, Texas functions as a conceptual construct. In topographical terms, no such city exists: there is Odesa in Ukraine and Odessa in Texas. Yet as soon as we allow these two geographies to overlap, a third, imaginary space begins to emerge between them. It is within this transitional space that we suddenly find a possibility to speak about memory, distance, loss, and belonging.