Inna Rogatchi’s Dreaming Melody work ( 2020) participates in the internationally curated SILENCE exhibition at the PH21 Gallery and Art Photography Centre in Budapest, Hungary. The exhibition presents over 50 works by the 45 artists from 14 countries, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Italy, Austria, Greece, Israel, Finland. Germany, Malta, Belgium, Australia.
The selection exhibited at the SILENCE show is exceptionally strong and interesting, it is a top-quality art overall.
According to the exhibition curators, ‘Silence is always conceived against its opposites; sound, noise, loudness. Silence is strongly associated with loneliness and alienation, the unknown and disturbing landscape on the one hand, and the known tranquillity and peace on the other hand. Photographically, the contrast between deep darkness and dazzling light is also decisive. After natural or social catastrophes, everything falls silent; empty cities, villages, abandoned public transport and empty workplaces remind us of the transience and fragility of humankind. Silence is accompanied by quiet activities such as contemplation and meditation, which negate the very nature of action itself. Silence is also often present in still lifes, cityscapes, portraits, and many other photographic genres”.
This concept just cannot be more matching Inna Rogatchi’s feelings and thoughts when choosing her work for the exhibition under the new and dramatic circumstances of the brutal, unprovoked war of Russia against Ukraine. Inna’s Dreaming Melody work ( 2020) is dedicated to the shocking situation of sudden war in Europe, unnecessary and tragic.
Inna and The Rogatchi Foundation in partnership with the PH21 Gallery & Art Photography Centre have decided to run her and her work’s participation in the SILENCE exhibition as a part of their new international art charitable action Art for Ukraine. More detail about it can be read here.
In her Artist Statement, Inna Rogatchi said:
“My Dream Melody ( 2020) artwork is one of my favourite works. It is a quiet visual ‘symphony’ of memories. More tangible and not tangible at all. More expressive and vivid and almost invisible ones, as well. It is a silent song of over-exposition of one’s memories. It is an X-ray picture of one’s dreams, and a dialogue between one’s consciousness and subconsciousness. For me, the most interesting process in one’s life.
This work was created in 2020 as a lyrical and philosophical work and supposed to be like that. Until now. In the year 2022, we all in Europe, with horror, are witnessing an awful war in Ukraine which has marked our lives for a long time ahead.
In partnership with PH21 Gallery, I dedicate this work to the people of Ukraine, and I will donate my share of all proceeds from the sales of the limited edition of the exhibited work to the brave and honest journalists who are working on this war and who are risking their lives to tell us the awful, but absolutely necessary truth about this Mean War”.
The exhibition is on display in Budapest from April 7 through April 27, 2022.