How Does It Feel?
Li Biletska
It started by accident. From Bucha. It was a tsunami of horror, misunderstanding, rejection, pain, agony, hatred. These emotions burn me down. The only possible way to react to these atrocities while living in occupied Kherson was through art. This is how this series began. Unfortunately, the war gave many more reasons to create conceptual photos for this series. And, unfortunately, it will still give. Title "How Does It Feel?" is a classic question on psychotherapy. At the beginning of the war, I had a constant set of strong feelings: anger, rage, hatred, pain, sadness, longing, apathy. Now I noticed: with each flagrant crime of Russia, the meaning and significance of this list of feelings seem to be erased, leveled. For myself, I found a way to share my feelings when there are no words. This is the creation of a series with unique photo reflections on the painful events of the war.
Li Biletska was born in 1994 in Kherson, Ukraine, and completed her Master's degree in Ukrainian Philology at Kherson State University in 2018. Since then, she has been earning through photography and occasionally video shooting. Starting in 2020, Li has focused on creative photo projects and conceptual photography, completing 9 photo projects and participating in 13 exhibitions. She is also venturing into documentary filmmaking. Currently, Li's work captures her reactions to the Russian military aggression in Ukraine, aiming to transform negative emotions into art and, in her view, turning death into life.
