“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre 

Double Q Gallery is honoured to present ‘Resilience: Voices of Ukraine’, an exhibition dedicated to two contemporary Ukrainian artists displaced by the war, Artem Volokitin and Maria Kulikovska. The exhibition offers visual representations of the warfare’s lasting impact on ordinary Ukrainians and highlights how the two artists have built resilience through the act and process of artistic creation. Both artists have fled their countries since the war started in Ukraine in March 2022. Kulikovska and Volokitin, like so many other Ukrainians, found themselves needing to start a new life from scratch. This exhibition can be seen as an organic part of that new start as it has developed and accompanied the artists throughout the last twelve months. Although working on an exhibition in the face of such struggles seemed nonsensical at times, it actually ended up giving them hope. This exhibition is about that hope and what art can give to the artist, and now to you, the visitor. 

“I use the allegory of a repeatedly refracted light beam in the Multiple Refraction series. Light returns to its starting point and does not dissolve into infinite space.” — Artem Volokitin  

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan