Russian Daria Orlova from Murmansk is in Kirkenes with her brand new exhibition. The exhibition is intended as an alarm clock to humanity, and highlights important challenges that we face.
Daria Orlova (27) is a local artist from Murmansk, but even though she had exhibitions in both Arkhangelsk and Berlin, she has not yet shown her art in her own hometown. Darias exhibition “Songs on the way to the void” is a 12 frame collage-exhibition, which has its premiere in Kirkenes. She explains that the purpose of the exhibition is to arouse people’s attention to the major challenges we face. This applies as well to environmental issues such as overuse and garbage, but also to humanitarian problems such as water and food shortages, or as brutal as war.
– I wish that also ordinary people would open their eyes to the difficulties mankind faces. This is something that affects us all, but at home where I come from it is only activists who care about such issues.
The process of making the art has been hectic, when Daria only a few weeks ago was encouraged by some Norwegian environmental colleagues to create the exhibit..
The exhibition is possible to see at the Secretariat’s offices in Kirkenes until Sunday, during the Secretariat’s opening hours or so long that the premises are open to the public.
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