Give a Care

About

Caring can be a form of affection, a survival strategy, a political tool, a mode of labor, and a means of sustenance. It can be driven by moral imperative or necessity. Whether an accumulation of small gestures, a singular bold act, or even strategic indifference, expressions of care—or the lack thereof—shape the world in which we live, a world that is often fraught with competing tensions and complexities.

Irina Palamar, debuting as the curator of the project, invited twelve visual artists – Elena Otvodenko, Sonya Nechai, Mariya Tatarnikova, Ksenia Ilina, Jane Struk, Daria Arendt, Alexandra Cane, Nata Yanchur, Konstantin Frolov, Aleksandra Golubchikova, Anastasia Zotova and Kuznetsova Daria – to represent their views to the acts of taking care, looking closely at their environments. 

"Society desperately needs creators and artists who can attract attention to problems and remind the viewer with their work that each of us can start the chain of indifference and care to make the world a better place.» - Irina says.

Give a Care seeks to unpack matters of care from the personal to the collective. The artworks on view range from portrayals of familial relations and societal obligations, to gestures of hospitality and ritual, from strategies of bearing witness and evoking empathy, to explorations of networks of care and the results of their absences. This conversation between over 20 works of art across media considers and reveals the multi-faceted nature of the ways care is conveyed and experienced. And, in doing so, urges the open-ended question of how we care for ourselves and each other in our broader social worlds.