Personal exhibition “An Eye on the Knee” by Daria Kuzmych is part of the Healing Arts Ukraine arts programme, an arts and health campaign to support military health, veteran recovery and civilian resilience in times of conflict.
An ornament of movement created by two different bodily rhythms permeates the space. Acceptance. Resistance from within shapes an ornament formed by this very body. Language, sensitive to the painful ruptures of muscles and fascia across time, disintegrates and takes shape anew. Born from painful movement, forms materialise as diagrams and technical drawings.
The exhibition brings together works created by the artist over sixteen years following a severe accident she experienced in her youth. These works separate the “I” from a part of the body—the knee—externalising it as a point and source of pain. The prosthetic and reconstructed knee becomes a distinct form of knowledge. It enables a closer understanding of the experiences of those holding the line of defence. Videos, diagrams, drawings, and texts bear witness to time being turned inside out through pain. The body is the only time that exists.
The exhibition is part of the Healing Arts Ukraine arts programme, an arts and health campaign to support military health, veteran recovery and civilian resilience in times of conflict.
Healing Arts Ukraine is implemented by Art Therapy Force as part of the global Healing Arts initiative by Jameel Arts & Health Lab, with the support of the WHO Regional Office for Europe under the Health Resilience in the Eastern Partnership programme, funded by the European Union. It is delivered through a national coalition of organisations working at the intersection of culture, healthcare, education, and policy, including the Lviv City Council, Lviv Radio Municipal Enterprise, the Institute of Culture Strategy, the UNBROKEN rehabilitation centre, and King’s College London.