23.8 2023 17h
Nataliya Ilchuk: Marché / gallery talk
Nataliya Ilchuk works predominantly in the medium of film and video. She was born in Lviv in 1985. Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France in 2020 after having studied cinema in Kyiv, Ukraine and Warsaw, Poland. Since autumn 2022 she is a PhD candidate at CY Cergy Paris University,France where she is currently developing an artistic research thesis in the form of an auto-ethnography. Her research explores the limitations of artistic freedom while attempting to establish links between authenticity in cinema and the numerous forms of external and internal pressures with particular attention to censorship and self-censorship.