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A flag on the Kuyalnyk Estuary, Odesa. “We don’t see anything but our country at the time” © Ira Lupu
Exhibition
Time of Phoenix
4 Oct 2022 – 15 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Wembley Park
- London
England - HA9 0AS
- United Kingdom
Wembley Park unveils a new public, open air exhibition by Ukrainian-born artist and photographer Ira Lupu. ‘Time of Phoenix’ reveals an intimate set of photographs that document Lupu’s return to her home country, Ukraine, for the first time since the war began.
About
Ira Lupu is a photographer, visual artist, and curator born in Odesa, Ukraine, and currently based in NYC. She is a graduate of the International Centre of Photography, and Viktor Marushchenko’s School of Photography (Kyiv). Her work has been exhibited across Europe and the U.S., including Christie’s London and Paris, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Rotterdam Art Week, Dallas Contemporary, and published in the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and the British Journal of Photography, among others.
Previously based in New York, Lupu returned to Ukraine in May 2022, to help her mother to leave the country. Although she never planned to create a specific body of work during her time, this proved unavoidable, and the resulting series is one that reveals - intimately and sensitively - all the beauty, tragedy, routine, and rebirth of what she saw. From scenes of missile strikes to those of joyful youth, Lupu's photographs present a hopeful vision of her home. Despite the continuing sounds of missiles, she describes the importance of being at home during this critical time:
