London's Saatchi Gallery has opened an exhibition of current Ukrainian photography, FUTURESPECTIVE, which was initiated by the Vogue Ukraine team in partnership with PhotoVogue. Until the 16th leaf fall in the heart of the capital of Great Britain you can take 34 photos. as the sensitive and penetrating stories about modern Ukraine reveal.
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Works of 34 Ukrainian photographers in the center of London
The FUTURESPECTIVE exhibition is a unique gift to be in the very heart of London, which is the current Ukrainian mysticism, which is what the new generation of Ukrainian photographers is talking about. Young and familiar photographers and photographers from Kiev, Odessa, front-line Kharkov, the occupied Luhansk, Melitopol and other Ukrainian places follow through photography those youths, hopes in the hour of war, Identity and memory.
Possibility of recognizing what modern Ukraine is
The stories behind the exhibits will help the international audience better understand how today's Ukrainian youth are alive. The heroes of Svetlin Odessa Dar'ya Svertilova are young boys and girls who are growing up in the hour of war. At the FUTURESPECTIVE exhibition, the photographer, who lingers between Kiev and Paris, presents highlights from the series “Temporal House”, created in Kiev in 2021–2023. In her work, Svertilova traces the student population of the Ukrainian capital – a symbolic space for the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Some of them were damaged during the Russian shelling of Kiev.
“Quiet” stories about the war
Although the lights do not literally depict the war, their presence is noticeable in many frames. Thus, the work “Sergiy and Oleg” (2023) by photographer Anya Brudna is a portrait of Sergiy, who served in the National Guard of Ukraine, and his newly-born son. Before the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Sergius worked on the model, however, like many Ukrainians, having seen the future life for the sake of the future, which child can live in a free and peaceful edges.
Sensitive view of the world
The works presented at the FUTURESPECTIVE exhibition convey a sensitive and poetic view of the world. 27-year-old photographer from the city of occupied Lugansk Alina Presich to draw light from a childish mind: a work from the Tatko series (2022), shot in the Carpathian village of Verkhovyna, following The cry is equal between childhood and maturity, tenderness and strength. The gesture of the father, who places his hand on the don’s head, suggests the cover – a sign of the protection of the turbot. This is especially true for an entire generation of children whose parents are currently intent on seizing their home and land from the Russian enemy.
Saatchi Gallery is one of the most popular galleries in London
Saatchi Gallery, founded in 1985 in the bohemian London district of Chelsea by Charles Saatchi, is one of the city's leading galleries. For 40 years, the most famous artists of today have exhibited here: Svay Tomblé, Damien Gerst, Tracey Emin. Based on the knowledge of the authoritative publication The Art Newspaper, over the past five years the Saatchi Gallery has held ten of the 15 largest exhibitions in the British capital.
One of our galleries is the discovery of new names in the world of modern mysticism, it is especially symbolic that until mid-leaf fall on the walls of the Saatchi Gallery, on the first version of the gallery you can see the works of Ukrainian mitsiv.
Among the participants of the exhibition are both new names and permanent contributors to Vogue Ukraine. Many of the presented authors are participants in the global photocall FUTURESPECTIVE, which the editors held on this occasion. The competition was judged by world-famous photographers Brett Lloyd and Carlin Jacobs, art directors Ezra Petronio and Lana Petrusevich, global creative director of Vogue Raul Martinez, art director of the PinchukArtCentre Bjorn Geldhof, director of the Ukrainian Museum in New York Peter Doroshenko is the head of the Global PhotoVogue program and the director of the PhotoVogue Festival Alessia Glaviano.
The project was implemented with the support of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Acquired Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, PhotoVogue, Kernel and LEX by Nemiroff and The Natalia Cola Foundation.
Exhibition FUTURESPECTIVE trivatime in the Saatchi Gallery from 23 autumn to 16 leaf fall 2025.
