{"id":5945,"date":"2024-08-14T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:13:50","slug":"solova-vystava-poliny-davydenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/en\/solova-vystava-poliny-davydenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Polina Davydenko: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"bxslider\" ><li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_02.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_02.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_02.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_04.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_04.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_04.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_05.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_05.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_05.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_14.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_14.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_14.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_19.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_19.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_19.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_15.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_15.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_15.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_08.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_08.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_08.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class='slide-wrapper'>\n<img src='https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_07.jpg' data-interchange=\" [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_07.jpg, (default)], [https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Polina-Davydenko_If-a-tree-falls_galerieETC_ph_Jan_Kolsky_07.jpg, (large)] \"  \/>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her solo exhibition at etc. gallery, Polina Davydenko combines her art practice with her own experiences as a war photographer. She works with artificially built sceneries that become model landscapes for the contemporary reality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She focuses on the question of images that claim to be realistic but also teeters on the edge of ethics and spectacle. Is it still moral to share photographs of suffering people taken without their permission? Or is it, on the contrary, wrong in terms of value to turn our eyes away from this reality and not reproduce such images?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opening: 30. 10. 2024, 18:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibition: 31. 10. \u2013 15. 12. 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opening hours: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thu\u2013Sun 14:00\u201319:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ETC_05_A4.pdf\">Curatorial text<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Credits:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technical support: Petr K\u0159iv\u00e1k, Pavel Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dobe\u0161, Max M\u00e1slo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3D animation (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">): Luk\u00e1\u0161 Prokop<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound design: Jon\u00e1\u0161 Svoboda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voiceover: Bernardeta Bab\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production: Ida Tausch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graphic design: Nela Kl\u00edmov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Translation: Mark\u00e9ta Effenbergerov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proofreading: Michal Jurza<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project is supported by the City of Prague and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ETC_24_05_FB_COVER.jpg\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her solo exhibition at etc. gallery, Polina Davydenko combines her art practice with her own experiences as a war photographer. She works with artificially built sceneries that become model landscapes for the contemporary reality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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