The exhibition “The Land We Carry” is the culmination of the art and community program of the same name, implemented by Jam Factory Art Center in the summer of 2025 as part of the international art residency Magic Carpets.
Графік роботи та вартість квитків
Opening of the exhibition: 29 November at 16:00
Duration: 29 November 2025 – 11 January 2026
Hours: Mon – closed, Tue–Fri 12:00–20:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–20:00
Admission is free.
The exhibition remains open during power outages.
About exhibition
Working together with three Ukrainian artists—Diana Khalilova, Lilia Petrova, and Iryna Loskot—the participants of “The Land We Carry” rediscovered their relationship with gardening, observing plants, and memory through drawing, movement, storytelling, working with clay, and cooking. The space of such co-creation made it possible to reveal the rich artistic images that lived in our small community’s memory of home and homeland. Something long forgotten would resurface, and what once seemed “unimportant” became meaningful.
It is difficult to imagine celebrating in times of daily tragedies and losses. Yet gathering around a table is not only about light-hearted joy; it is also about mutual support, about grounding oneself in community, about the possibility of “being together.” In the project, we held communal kitchen sessions, where speaking and listening about the difficult and the intimate was just as important as cooking and eating. That is why the table we invite you to at the exhibition is made up of personal stories—happy, painful, diverse, yet ultimately relatable.
We created this exhibition with its visitors in mind, striving to make the space as open to interaction as possible. What matters most here is the time and place for experience—to remember, to feel, to slow down, to observe. We present our practices and approaches to working with individual memory, and we invite you to share your own stories, to be attentive to yourself and to others.
Topic
The program focuses on cultural practices such as gardening and cooking, which serve as sources of support and strengthen community resilience in times of daily losses and tragedies. Participants of the program, together with the artists, worked with artistic media including drawing, ceramics, performative practices, and storytelling.
Artists:
Diana Khalilova
Lilia Petrova
Ira Loskot
Participants:
Anastasiia Sierikova, Andrii Holdaiev, Anna Koshel, Anna Kurnatska, Halyna Vorona, Hanna Varshavska, Daniela Hrytsak, Diana Horban, Yarysia Makiievska, Karina Dovhan, Mariia Krykun, Nadiia Noskova, Olha Kamisarova, Olha Kis, Olha Niesterkova, Sofiia Hrynevych, Yuliia Dudnieva, Yurii Pryima, Yaroslava Katsedan.
Special Thanks:
Lerane Khanum Kurtnebi Kizi
Bohdan Ostapchuk
Jam Factory Art Center Team:
Program Director: Ilona Demchenko
Executive Director: Tetiana Fedoruk
Magic Carpets Project Curator: Olena Kasperovich
Magic Carpets Project Manager: Ira Kliuchnyk
Visual Arts Project Curator: Asya Tsisar
Visual Arts Project Manager: Mariia Buria
Assistant: Vlada Novosad
Operations Manager: Levko Pidzharyi
Installation: Metamuseum, “Euroenergo”
Technical Support: Serhiy Klymets
Event Organizer: Taya Mamchak
Communications: Marta Klub, Lesia Dunets, Iryna Ponchka
Design: Nastei Teor
Receptionists: Anastasiya Vasylenko, Nadiia Saraieva, Oleksandra Tesliuk
Administrative Manager: Anastasiya Mashkevych
Financial Support: Nataliya Terletska, Olha Protsailo, Khrystyna Harasymiak
Art Mediators: Olia Shul, Katia Lohinova, Khrystyna Savitska
Translation: Areta Kovalska
Editing: Iryna Voloshchak
Cleaning: Alla Ovsiuk, Tamara Kovtushenko, Nadiya Seniv, Svitlana Petrova