Project MARIA is a mobile memorial responding to the Holodomor—the 1932–33 state-engineered famine in Soviet Ukraine—and to the long-standing erasure of this genocide from wider historical awareness.

The work emerged from research into how violence is sustained through disinformation, denial, and the suppression of memory—mechanisms normalized during the Stalinist period and reactivated in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Rather than adopting the fixed, monumental language of traditional memorials, Project MARIA takes the form of a mobile, participatory work that moves across locations and cultural contexts.

The project resists authoritative narration. Drawing on historical photographs and the materiality of photographic processes, it invites viewers to encounter the memorial through proximity, attention, and participation. Meaning is not prescribed, but assembled—through individual passage and collective presence.

 
 
 

Manifestations


Project MARIA is realized as a mobile memorial, taking the form of site-responsive installations and photographic works presented across institutional and public contexts.

Documentation

Selected presentations include:

National Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv, 2021
Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden, 2020
White Shadows, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, 2020

Institutional Presence

Works from Project MARIA are held in public and institutional collections, including the National Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv.

 

Publications

Transfiguration, artist book, Terra Ercolano Press, 2018