unboxing at Biblioteka
29 Jun '26
Biblioteka
1 Montague Street
WC1B 5BP
«unboxing» is a conversation and a participatory session exploring radically different perspectives on the war in Ukraine based on a box with seven art objects brought by cultural worker Alona Karavai. Together, we will unpack these art objects, discussing each piece as it emerges from the box and later on creating together an improvised exhibition situation. This is an invitation to a nuanced conversation and a more intimate form of curation—one where all involved work and interpret side-by-side instead of in-front-of. White gloves provided; curiosity required.
“unboxing” explores complex, conflicting, sometimes heavy and sometimes funny experiences of eternal war and crisis time. It deals with migration, broken personal ties and broken life plans, shifted ideologies, vulnerable landscapes and same vulnerable memories, as well as with post-traumatic growth which sometimes cannot keep up with the ongoing pace of happening. At the same time, “unboxing” is an act of imagination — a try to find an autonomous alternative to how we could meet art and each other on eye level.
On 29th June at Biblioteka in the Architectural Association we’ll unbox the works by: Yevheniya Belorusets, INAKSHE, Yurii Izdryk, Kinder Album, Serhiy Melnychenko, Tetiana Pukhnavtseva, Anna Niykytiuk, Tetiana Pukhnavtseva.
The works will be unboxed by Alona Karavai.
VSESVIT CIC is a Community Interest Company with registration number 15095042.
