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Diploma Exhibition Anna Perepechai @annachai

Tears of Things.

Migrant Reflections on Memory, Loss & Resistance in Times of Russia’s War against Ukraine

03.07. - 07.07.2025

Vernissage
03.07.2025 | 6 pm - 9 pm

Reading & Talk (EN)
04.07.2025 | 6:30 pm - 8 pm

Opening hours
Thursday to Monday
8 am - 5 pm

Exhibition venue
Techne Sphere, Niemeyerstraße 2–5, 04179 Leipzig

Tears of Things is a multimedia work that reflects on Russia's war against Ukraine from the personal perspective of artist Anna Perepechai. As a Ukrainian migrant in Germany, where she arrived in 2014 as a volunteer and unexpectedly remained, she weaves memories, losses, and observations into an artistic exploration of war, migration, and resistance.

The starting point is her home region of Chernihiv, which borders Russia and Belarus and has been under constant threat since 2014. The large-scale invasion in 2022 also affected Perepechai's family—the early occupation and the loss of loved ones shape the work.

On a very personal level, the work combines photographs, texts, graphics, video, and artistic actions. It tells of grief and turmoil—but also of resistance, care, and remembrance work in the context of Russification, colonization, and repression. “Tears of Things” combines documentary observation with experimental forms of expression and builds a bridge between the past, the present, and an uncertain future.

Anna Perepechai is a Ukrainian artist and activist, born in Poltava and raised in the Chernihiv region. She has been living in Leipzig since 2020, where she is completing her diploma at the HGB in the class for photography & moving image under Prof. Tina Bara. Her practice combines conceptual documentary photography with camera-less analog processes and text. Since 2022, she has been documenting Ukrainian demonstrations in Leipzig on a voluntary basis as part of @freundeskreis.ukraine.leipzig and @ukraine_leipzig