Dymchuk Gallery presents the exhibition project Fractured Tomorrows, which includes paintings and an object by Ukrainian artists Dmytro Yevsieiev, Mykola Lukin, and Yurii Pikul.
The project focuses on uncertainty in wartime and the feelings that arise when the usual supports — personal, social, and visual — disappear. The works convey a conditional state after the fault, when the connection between the present and the future loses clarity, and the usual idea of the development of events no longer works.
Fractured Tomorrows was first presented in 2024 at the Schnitzer & Art Center (Munich, Germany) with the support of Goethe-Institut Ukraine. The international context became the starting point for a conversation about how the war in Ukraine, which was initially perceived as a localized catastrophe in the West, is transforming the general idea of stability and the future. The exhibition in Kyiv continues this conversation in a space that is part of the experience of uncertainty.
Fragments of the exhibition allude to the landscapes of destruction today, and due to the surrealism of the image, they transport the viewer as if to another planet. The shapes are blurred, and you can partially guess the airplanes. You notice the signs of the city and its industrial zones. People anticipate a hostile, aggressive force filling the neighborhood.
Dmytro Yevsieiev, Mykola Lukin, and Yurii Pikul’s works do not depict the war. They are a language of metaphor, atmosphere, and images that arise at a time when the familiar becomes ghostly and the future fragmented.
About the authors:
Dmytro Yevsieiev was born in 1988; graduated from the Odesa Art School, named after M.B. Grekov, Department of Painting. He lives and works in Odesa. The basis of the artist’s painting practice is a new metaphysics and hyperreality as a point of reference in the search for the fundamental principles of human existence. The deliberate realistic exaggeration in his works gives rise to the redundancy of the image, which allows him to overcome the distance of the symbolic and “get used” to the inner state of the image.
Mykola Lukin was born in 1987 in Odesa, graduated from the Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov, and studied at the Faculty of Art and Graphic Arts of the South Ukrainian Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynskyi, Master of Fine Arts and Art History;
Since 2011, he has taught at the Odesa Art School, named after M.B. Grekov. He lives and works in Odesa. In his works, he combines realistic painting with fantasy compositions, the content of which can range from the everyday lyrical to the existential and timeless. Thematically, the artist works with the mystification and mythologization of reality and the selectivity and fragmentation of its representation.
Yurii Pikul was born in 1983 in Kyiv. He entered the National Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 but withdrew his documents independently. He lives and works in Kyiv.
In his realistic painting, he uses everyday life as a metaphor for art itself. His documentary paintings are a poeticization of reality and a reflection on the place of painting in contemporary art and human life.