Presentation at the confererense "The Russian Model of Cultural Heritage Destruction During War. The Case of Mariupol"
Apr 16, 26
Presentation of the installation Swag during the online conference
The Russian Model of Cultural Heritage Destruction During War: The Case of Mariupol
16 April 2026
Conference orginised by the the Raphael Lemkin Society, in cooperation with the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore and the Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab HeMo
Swag. Installation by Lada Nakonechna
(crystals from chandeliers, video; Architecture: Ivan Melnychukvideo), 2026
The work was created in collaboration with Anastasiia Cherednychenko, a representative of the Ukrainian ICOM. Its central motif is a crystal from a chandelier in the Mariupol Drama Theatre. Cherednychenko drew attention to the object after it entered the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, where it was described as an exhibit from a theatre destroyed in March 2022.
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