A century ago, it seemed that the past could be thrown out of the "ship of the present", to free this burden and move freely into the future. Then there were two world wars, regime change, catastrophe - all that was better not to know at all. It would be better to forget - but the past refuses to go. Injuries of the past provoke wars today. Our cities are marked with symbols of the past, cast in bronze and marble. That people are ready to fight the blood, protecting their presence or requiring them to be removed. Does not go nowhere? Why do we allow him to define ours today, our future? Why do the traumas of the past continue to hurt even those who were hiding these wounds with all their strength? The most unpleasant thing about this is that we do not all have recipes that guarantee "correct" entry into the future through knowledge of what was. Everyone here is one-on-one with his relationship with the past. But we can at least share thoughts. We will talk about what strategies of relationships with the past already exist - and we are looking for those ways of working with the past, which will allow us to see the future.

Oksana Dovgopolova, who works with memory both in academic space (as a doctor of philosophy and a professor at the Odessa National University), and in the practical field - as curator of the programs Memory Lab, experimental division of the Holodomor Memorial Center "Babyn Yar" will share their thoughts with us. »

A complete program of Museums' Nights as part of the exhibition "The Way of Aeneas: The Artists of the Past Self-by-Self with the Past":

16:30 Curated excursion with Boris Filonenko;
18:00 Oksana Dovgopolova. The future through the past. How the past speaks to us and how we talk to the past;
20:00 Curated excursion with Boris Filonenko.

All events will be held at YermilovCentre at Freedom Square 4 (entrance from the side of the Klochkivsky Descent).

The project was implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.