© Igor Manko

Exhibition Curator: Roberto Muffoletto

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VASA Exhibitions is presenting the work of two Ukrainian artists: Alena Grom and Igor Manko.

Different but similar in nature. Igor's work focuses on light reflections as a possible language waiting for a voice, while Alena's work has a focus on voices full of warnings and hope. Their similarities may be seen in light of language. While their dis-similarities are found in intention. Igor refers to the reflections as an incomprehensible language with no known intention, where as Grom's images are clearly a language looking for a reader to speak the voice of the authors.

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© Alena Grom

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA, since 2008, has provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko and "Why??" curated by Sandeep Biswas.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.