UNBC Art Council presents “Rain Project” by Oleg Chorny (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Exhibition opening: The artist will appear on Zoom. Project Description Mariupol is perhaps best known as the city razed to the ground by Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and as the site of fierce resistance by Ukraine’s defenders. However, this is not the first time Mariupol has been the locus of Russia’s war on Ukraine. In 2014, Ukraine retook Mariupol from Russian aggressors following its seizure earlier that year. Oleg Chorny’s 2016 documentary, Rain Project, traces the journey of Ukrainian artist Hamlet Zinkivsky to Mariupol as he creates an urban artwork series during the city’s cultural rebirth. Having