UKRAINE, KHARKIV — On January 7, a photo exhibition called “Dali: I will get my life back” opened in Kharkiv to honor Maksym Kryvtsov (also called Dali), a poet and a soldier, who was killed in a combat mission near Kharkiv a year ago. The exhibition features photographs and personal belongings of the artist and soldier.
Kryvtsov was an activist in Euromaidan protests in 2013, and volunteered to join the army after Russia first invaded in 2014. He remained a soldier after the Russian full-scale invasion and wrote a poetry book “Poems from the Gunport” from the frontline that was published in 2023.
When the note of his death reached his mother, she wrote on her Facebook: “The violets will grow through my dear son’s body… Oh, God.”
Visitors can join the exhibition “Dali: I Will Take Back My Life” at the Makers café on Skovorody Street, 36 in the city center of Kharkiv. It will be open until January 22.
A fragment of GM’s translation of one of Maksym Kryvtsov’s poems:
If war is a song,
then it’s a song without words,
a song without notes,
without music,
a song
that was sung before humans
before the world was made,
a song without song and a song of all songs.
The exhibition is part of nationwide activities organized in honor of Kryvtsov. Visitors will be able to donate and receive merchandise featuring Dali’s quotes and drawings. The funds raised will support the activities of the charity fund bearing his name.
The memory platform Memorial was created to tell more people about Maksym’s Kryvtsov. The authors of this project put together his biography facts, memories of relatives and friends about Maksym, and his poetry, and photos to reveal his personality and reconstruct his life path.
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