Double exposure

Technique:
Pencil on paper
Year:
2022

On the third day of the full-scale war in Ukraine, I started a series of drawings called Double exposure. I was caught by the news that russia attacked Ukraine in Lviv, heading to the Carpathians. I was going to help my colleagues prepare for the opening of the Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit Museum in Kryvorivnia, a village of the Verkhovyna district in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. I went there, spending the whole day on the road reading the news. When there was no internet, I looked out the bus window at the peaceful mountains, but in fact, I continued seeing explosions in the cities of Ukraine, in my city.

That's what I started drawing. In my wartime series Double exposure, I depict an overlapping of two accounts – the scenes I witness while navigating relatively safe routes in and out of the country and traumatic news reports from places of belonging in Ukraine. Sometimes I leave only one layer of the image when the war comes close enough to me personally.

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure

Inga Levi. Double exposure