Culture. The reading room of the Gallaratese Library named after the Ukrainian activist and poet Amelina
Culture. The reading room of the Gallaratese Library named after the Ukrainian activist and poet Amelina
Milan, March 26 2024 – From today the reading room of the Gallaratese Library will bear the name of Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian poet, writer and activist who died last summer in a raid in Kramatorsk.
The plaque that officially names the space will be unveiled this afternoon in the presence of the Councilor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi, the Ukrainian Vice Consul General Viktoriia Fufalko and the editorial director of Linkiesta and expert on the topic Christian Rocca.
"We have chosen to dedicate this room to the memory of a journalist who worked until the end to report on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war crimes perpetrated in her occupied country – declares councilor Sacchi –. A way to remember the horror of the conflict, but also to celebrate the resilience of those who do not give up, even in the most difficult conditions, to exercise their freedom of expression, taking the exercise of this right to its extreme consequences".
During the ceremony some extracts from Amelina's works were read by the professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the State University of Milan Yaryna Grusha, and by the mediator Svitlana Tkachenko, who participated in the Milan Help Ukraine project.
For the occasion, the uCRYna exhibition was inaugurated, a collection of 28 photographs taken by Carlo Cozzoli and Marco Cremonesi of the Memora collective, who spent six months documenting the conflict in the Oblasts of Lviv, Kyiv, Kherson and Donbass. The exhibition is curated by Samar Zaoui and Alessandro Cimma.
The exhibition itinerary is structured along three directions: the beginning of the conflict, the resistance of the population and the new emergence of a consolidated and shared Ukrainian national and cultural identity. The exhibition, open to the public until March 30, ends with an installation which, through the use of photos and videos, accompanies the viewer in a multidimensional and immersive experience on the change in contemporary warfare due to indiscriminate and ruthless use of drones.
Updated: 26/03/2024