Ihor Podolchak

Ihor Podolchak (1962) is a Ukrainian postmodern artist, director, screenwriter, and curator. Addresses the spheres of installation, performance, and video art. The content of his works often combines pleasure and pain, love and play, forbidden desires, debauchery and sincere feelings. The works of Ihor Podolchak are stored in museums and private collections in Ukraine, France, Egypt, Australia, Great Britain, Israel, Germany, Norway, Poland, the USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Cuba, and Macedonia. In 1994, Podolchak represented Ukraine at the Art Biennial in Sao Paulo.

The artist often touches on social, political, and economic topics and satirizes society's flaws. Such is the graphic series "Monuments", where the author reflects on the change in worldview at the turn of the 80s and 90s. A post-apocalyptic composition with elements of decay tells about the loss of former landmarks. The faceless pedestal in the center, which gradually began to disintegrate, symbolizes the collapse of old values and the overthrow of former «heroes» who only hindered the country's development on the way to independence.