Sasha Kurmaz (UA, b. 1986) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with photography and video, as well as building collective experiences and public interventions. Kurmaz is interested in creating situations which invite audiences to collaborate. His practice is primarily focused on the social, political and global challenges which Ukrainian society has faced in recent years.
The Tools of Resistance series depicts objects used by activists in confrontation with the police during demonstrations and civil unrest in Kyiv on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, also known as the Revolution of Dignity.
Elsewhere, Wasted Youth is a long-term project for which Sasha Kurmaz turned to the form of a personal diary, which he uses to document life around him – his peers, various subcultural practices, or radical and mundane ways of being together in the here and now. The overarching theme of this series is the formation of youth identity in post-soviet space.
Artist is part of the special presentation Essential Goods: Contemporary Ukrianian Photography