artillery shell 122 mm - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Print

The photo is the part of the project "Fragments of War". Life size scans of munition fragments found in the territory of the Donbas, with grooves and bends, whose sharp edges can easily kill or maim anyone on their way from the barrel to the place of impact and spalling. Each fragment has its own history, the circumstances in which I found it; origin, where it came from and how I came by it; place where it was found. After the spalling and impact begins another story. And now compiling a new history which describes what happened during the war, the participation of the people, soldiers, volunteers, citizens - everyone became a fragment that was knocked from his/her place in life and abandoned on the battlefield and up to pile into something new and powerful. Artillery shell, probably 122 millimeters Caliber - 122 millimeters Weight of shell - 21,76 kilogram Starting shell speed - 690 meters per second Starting fragments speed - 800 meters per second Destruction area - 800 square meters Maximum shooting range from howitzer 2A18 (D-30) - 15,2 kilometers Number of fragments 1-4 gram - 1000-1500 pieces Number of fragments weighing 4 and more gram - 400-850 pieces And now, two years after, I came back to the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation area to make a new project about this war and our involvement in it. With my friend Maxim Dondyuk we drove from Sloviansk village to Stanytsia Luhanska along the frontline, then back to Sloviansk from where we went south to Mariupol and back, through Sloviansk, home. Maxim make his project about war and scars it leaves, and I make my entitled “When the war is over”, about ukrainian ultimate goals that we lost on the way: integrity of the country, restore borders and unity in society against aggression. The war continues for the third year and it is unclear when it will end, the same as it is not clear when and where it started. Society loop in warfare and treat it on outskirts of attention as the norm. And this illusory timing loop and achieving goals is the first step down to defeat. This is the first time when I was in Sloviansk where the battles took place - Hospital, crossroads in front of it and KhimProm factory. From that time everything left untouched, something began to collapse, something mutilated with new scars by scrap-metal seekers. One of the many houses here was rebuilt, bridge and the road to it, that separatists blew up, now is rebuilt. My friend show me the place where he was when there was bombardments, describe what he was picturing then and what he understand now. We walked searching the scars that have left shelling on houses, land and trees; we climbed in destroyed houses. On the roof of the central building of the hospital, through a hole in which the sky can be seen, I found these artillery shell fragments sticking in beam - for long time they became rusty and barely recognizable. The hospital, which was in the past full of people, where they were treated and taking procedures, now became empty and deserted, so we easily walked through the destroyed pavilions and through the garden with shrapnel scarred trees, with trench left beyond. It is looks like that the hospital will never repair, so it remain for further destruction, like a monument for the future, like a memorial for the sake of warning. I had a strange feeling of something unusual and unnatural here - it was the silence. People don’t talk about the important things, about their plans, about their citizenship, about their future, like if it spoken it won’t happen. People don’t talk about what concerns them, don’t speak their opinion about the war because of fear. All around is silenced, it is Chernobyl-style silence where is no people, but here are people that afraid to make at least a bit of sound, afraid to be pointed out. Signed, dated and inscribed with title and signed reverso with the edition number. Added a Certificate of Authenticity. More at www.kupriyan.com

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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