The streets of Warsaw were involved in the project “I am Ukrainka” – a series of six portraits of Ukrainian female migrant workers on posters and 12 city lights. City lights are places where usually people view attractive females in advertising images. In contrast to these Photoshop-processed photographic images, the “I am Ukrainka” images were hand-painted by Ukrainian artists in a different manner. The fragment from a 200-hryvnia bill with the portrait of Lesia Ukrainka, a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, translator and polyglot forms the background of each poster in this series. Such a background encourages us to think about the interweaving of economic, cultural and national dimensions into modern capitalist systems.
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Oksana Briukhovetska: I am Ukrainka
The streets of Warsaw were involved in the project “I am Ukrainka” – a series of six portraits of Ukrainian female migrant workers on posters and 12 city lights. Photo: politicalcritique.org
