ST. JAVELIN. Marina / MOTHERHOOD, Julia Krahn 2022
Date: 2022
Art Form: Art Photography
Dimensions: 400 X 300 cm (157.48 X 118.11 in)
Serie: ST. JAVELIN
ST. JAVELIN is the latest project by Julia Krahn. The artist has invited Ukrainian refugees to tell their stories through images and interviews (available at the link below the photos).
ST. JAVELIN is the name given to a saint invented during the war, inspired by the missile “Javelin” sent to Ukraine in support of the resistance, which has become a symbol of the Patroness Madonna. This paradox of a mother holding a weapon, death instead of life, was the motivation that brought Julia Krahn closer to Ukrainian women.
The only weapon that the artist intends to use is empathy, hence the choice to insert a self-portrait in the project. The artist has in her hands her weapon, the button of the camera and invites the refugees to do the same, describing their weapons of daily resistance, made to build and never to destroy. A mother would never choose war for her children.
“I’m not talking about the war, its impossible reasons for existing or who’s keeping it burning, but the people who are suffering it. Regardless of thought, position or status, they fled to save their children and left their husbands behind. In addition to propaganda there are real people. Each one with their own story. I welcome in the studio those who want to share theirs.” (JK)
The project was realized in collaboration with Associazione Festivà, Camera dei Deputati, Museo Novecento Firenze, Paxos Biennale, PhEST Festival, Stiftung Garnisonkirche Potsdam, Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
We thank Municipality of Sorrento, Associazione I Penultimi and Hilfswerk Siedlung GmbH for their support.
