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War in Ukraine: the artist who whispered in the ears of the dead

2022-06-30T17:51:41.213Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - A morgue located on the outskirts of kyiv has become, for almost a month, the battlefield of a pacifist volunteer


By Luis de Vega (El Pais)

The war in Ukraine sometimes makes strange traveling companions.

This is what Amarna Miller, ex-Spanish porn actress and fine arts graduate, will no doubt think when she learns that a Ukrainian artist is going to draw inspiration from her

Manuel de psychonautique

(2015) to relate, in a prose project , photos and poetry, his experience as a volunteer in a morgue.

“She is

Eros

, I am

Thanatos

,” explains Aleksander Krolikovski, enjoying a pizza between some of his photographs of tortured corpses and pools of blood.

In the shadow of the warlike climate that darkens the future of his country, he wishes to go beyond the antagonism between pleasure and pain.

His testimony ranges from the tenderest feeling of solidarity to the goriest detail.

Sometimes I had to walk over the bodies, and inside myself I would ask them for forgiveness.

It was horrible, they were so...

", he says, lowering his voice to a whisper, to show how...

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Source: lefigaro

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