Carpintarias de São Lázaro

R. de São Lázaro 72, 1150-199 Lisboa

Inauguration → 16 . 10 . 2025 → 06:00 pm

17 . 10 . 2025 → 09 . 11 . 2025

thursday - sunday → 12:00 pm – 06:00 pm

Curated by

FOTODOK (Daria Tumias)

Artist

Yana Kononova

In Kononova’s terms, war does not end when the noise of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the land and embedding itself in the silence of devastated landscapes. The Radiations of War project traces this persistence through Ukraine—not as a documentary record, but as an encounter with a terrain where disaster continues after impact, turning the land into both witness and archive. When the frontline recedes, the ruins left behind reflect a landscape in transformation, charged with that which has passed through it. Kononova’s images are evidence of this process, revealing how violence settles into the earth—lingering in the weight of absence. (...)

Yana Kononova began working on the Radiations of War series in March 2022. She has since stayed and worked in areas formerly occupied by Russian troops, territories affected by active combat or locations that have endured the terror of missile strikes. Employing a medium format camera, Kononova’s work documents war crimes, destroyed civilian infrastructure, the efforts of Ukrainian emergency services, and the bodies of both fallen soldiers and civilian victims.

The exhibition was developed in conjunction with the artist’s first photobook, co- -published by FOTODOK and XYZ Books, and first was shown at WORM, Rotterdam. Pairing Kononova’s photographs with poetry by Joyelle McSweeney, both the exhibition and the Radiations of War publication have been produced as part of the Creative Europe initiative Intergalactica: Books for Culture Without Borders.