SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – A mortuary 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 be inspired by her Handbook of psychonautics (2015) to recount, in a project of prose, photos and poetry, his experience as a volunteer in a morgue. ” She is ErosI am Thanatos “, explains Aleksander Krolikovski while tasting 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 asked their forgiveness. It was horrible, they were so… “, he says, lowering his voice, until he whispers, to show how…
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