Alevtina Kakhidze
It seems like all the women in my bloodline know what war is. My grandmother met war when she was 21 years old; she became a soldier in WW2. My mother saw how the Russia-Ukraine war started in 2014; she got tired of it – here is her story:
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On the 24th of February 2022 I met the brutal escalation of this war in my village. There was shelling at the cemetery where I buried my mother and now I do not know if “she” is resting in peace or not.
I am writing these words from my studio, hearing shelling since 24 February. I have total disappointment in humans – we are still militaristic. It doesn’t matter where you are. Nevertheless, I wrote a note on my door that says: follow the example of plants - they are the biggest pacifists on our planet, they don’t kill each other as we humans do.
Hot Talk, 2022
I read that it’s supposed to be a ceasefire day today. Are you planning on leaving if that happens? I guess the shortest way out is South Moldavia. — No, the shortest way out is to stop the war.
Henichesk, 2022
You’re occupiers… take these seeds so sunflowers grow when you die here. — In the city of Henichensk in Ukraine
Read This Fairy Tale, 2022
The monster cockroach by Korney Chukovsky. It tells the story of an overgrown cockroach who assumed power over mankind and animals
Thanks for Birthday Wishes, 2022
Dear all, thanks for the Birthday wishes, they changed by mood: I heard shelling but imagined fireworks you ordered dedicated to my day. For dinner, on my day I had some fresh eggs by the chicken left to my by neibourgs to feed. The text was almost like fresh mussels I eat in London near the bridge.
Show Putin True News To Kill him, 2022
Don’t know what to do with Putin? Show him the real news. They will kill him.
Russia, 2022
I just want to say, if it is no war today, do not mean it is no war.
A Conversation with Marko from Belgrade, 2022
Alevtina, how are you these crazy times? Please, let me know. Warm regards from Belgrade. — Marko, I am in the cellar, please teach me how to hate Russians as you hate Americans — Alevtina, it’s easy, Russians pretend to be bigger Americans then Americans themselves
Alevtina Kakhidze
Born in Zhdanovka, Ukraine, in 1973. Artist, performer, curator, designer, gardener. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv and Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands). Starting from 2018, she acts as the UN Tolerance Ambassador in Ukraine; awarded the Kazimir Malevich Artist Prize in 2008 by the Polish Institute in Ukraine. Participant of international and Ukrainian artistic exhibition projects, including the European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta 10 during the time of annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, 7th Berlin Biennale which was focused on politics, Moroccan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale “Working for Change”. Since 2009, lives and works in Muzychi village, Ukraine.