About the project
Camouflage by Yelyzaveta Blyumska
In the work in progress, Blyumska examines how the industrial project influenced the city’s identity and what was lost in the process. Working with the body, the image of disguise, and the urban landscape, the artist raises questions of collective memory, forgetting, violence, and adaptation. At the centre are reflections on the female body as a field of struggle, as well as reflections on the boundaries between protection, self-preservation, and postponed catastrophe.
Camouflage is an attempt to restore visibility to what was suppressed by the industrial project. The work speaks of the city as a space of tension between memory and forgetting.
“In the work in progress Camouflage, I ask about the forgetting (remembering) that we, here in the city, choose now? Will repressed memory sprout like new shoots at the bottom of the Dnipro riverbed, freed from the industrial Kakhovka Sea? I reflect on the female body, how it becomes a weapon, but who made us like this? Can we single out the Other, the one who armed us? Maybe we tried to hide, to merge with the surrounding space, as if to protect ourselves and others, but in reality, we only postponed the moment of the explosion?” says the artist.
About the author
Yelyzaveta Blyumska was born and raised in Zaporizhzhia. She studied at the Faculty of Cybernetics and works with arts and psychology. In her work, she strives for anti-disciplinarity — practices of cognition that reject the form and content of academic canons and attempt to occupy the space of the unrecognized. In the artistic practice, Blyumska focuses on the themes of memory and power in relation to urban spaces.
Presentations
- The presentation of work in progress took place on December 14, 2025, at the Titan Centre, Zaporizhzhia.
Additional resources
- Release about the presentation of the work in progress at zprz city
- Release about the presentation of the work in progress at Газета МИГ
Implementation team
Co-Production proto produkciia, Dim Aktora
Executive producer Olga Diatel
Line producer Yuliia Parysh
Assistant producer Viktoriia Zhembrovska
Communication and media coordination Oleksii Havryliuk (proto produkciia), Olga Donik (Dim Aktora)
Copywriter Maria Agisian
Photo Eduard Tatsiy
Poster design Yaroslava Kovalchuk
Cameraman Oleksandr Kharchuk
Video editor Daria Sokolova
Supported by
Camouflage work in progress was created with the support of the Antonin Artaud Fellowship within the second South edition 2025, which focused on independent artists from the South of Ukraine. That edition of the Fellowship was implemented by proto produkciia foundation in partnership with the Odessa National Fine Art Museum and the MY ART Platform with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.